In hmolscience, Michael J. Moran (c.1950-) is an American mechanical engineer noted for []
Overview
In 2003, Moran, in his Fundamentals of Thermodynamics (3rd ed), co-authored with American mechanical engineer Howard N. Shapiro (c.1947-), and editions to follow (2007, 2010), began to include thermodynamics applied to humanities stylized homework problems, mostly of the economics thermodynamics variety; the first of which is the following Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen 1971 "material entropy" framed query: [1]
In the 2007 (6th) edition, they state that “scientists and engineers have found many applications of the second law and deductions from it in economics, philosophy, and other areas far removed from engineering thermodynamics”; the Boltzmann equation (or “Boltzmann relation” as they call it) model of entropy as a measure of disorder and how this model is sometimes used in economic and social modeling; discuss ATP as a storage batter; and give the following bio connections caption on the famous evolution (ordering) second law (disordering) reconciliations Q&A: [2]
While the "living things" term is outdated (see: life terminology upgrades), according to the defunct theory of life (2009), i.e. "thermodynamics does not recognize the term life" as Charles Sherrington (1938) famously put it, the end statement "lower states of entropy can be realized within a system as long as the total entropy of the system and the surroundings increases" is one of the most famously uncited regurgitations in thermodynamics, which apparently dates to the 1947 local entropy decrease argument of Belgian-born English thermodynamicist Alfred Ubbelohde. [3] The following are a few others from the 2007 edition: [2]
Here, in 6.6D, we see what seems to be discussion of pre-second law based thermodynamic economic equilibrium theories, and, in 6.10D, life and second law paradox discussions, as found in the works of Erwin Schrodinger (1944), Ilya Prigogine (1971-2003), and Eric Schneider (2005)
The following is one from the 2010 edition, co-authored with Daisie D. Boettner and Margaret B. Bailey: [4]
Education
Moran currently is a professor mechanical engineering at Ohio State University, specializing in engineering thermodynamics and thermoeconomics (albeit the “economic analysis of engineered mechanical systems variety” (engineering economics), it seems, over that of the “thermodynamics applied to economic systems variety” of the term).
See also
● List of thermodynamics textbooks with applications in the humanities
References
1. Moran, Michael J. and Shapiro, Howard N. (2003). Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics (3rd ed) (6.10D, pg. 290). Wiley.
2. Moran, Michael J. and Shapiro, Howard N. (2007). Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics (6th ed) (far removed, pg. 215; Boltzmann relation, pg. 281; living things, pg. 282). Wiley.
3. Ubbelohde, Alfred René. (1947). Time and Thermodynamics (§: “Experimental Aspects of the Relation between Thermodynamics and Life”, pgs. 100-05). Oxford University Press.
4. Moran, Michael J., Shapiro, Howard N., Boettner, Daisie D., and Bailey, Margaret B. (2010). Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics (7th ed) (5.10D, pg. 277). Wiley.
External links
● Michael J. Moran (faculty) – Ohio State University.
● Howard Shapiro (faculty) – Wayne State University.
● Shaprio, Howard N. – WorldCat Identities.
