In human thermodynamics education, thermodynamics textbooks with humanities applications, refers to thermodynamics textbooks that include applications in the humanities, i.e. human thermodynamics material, in one of its 40+ branches, in their content; known examples are listed below:
List
The following is a listing of known thermodynamics (predominately) textbooks, and to a lesser extent thermal physics, statistical mechanics (or statistical thermodynamics), and or chemistry (or physical chemistry) textbooks, that include "thermodynamics applied to the humanities" material:
Year | Textbook | Human thermodynamics branch | References |
1931 | Meghnad Saha (1893-1956) Indian astrophysicist (see: Indian school) | [10] | |
1964 | Ivan Bazarov (1916-2005) Russian physicist | ● Heat death argument for the existence of god (Friedrich Engels) ● Heat death argument against the existence of god (Bazarov) ● Universal origins | [1] |
1973 | Gordon van Wylen (1920-) American mechanical engineer Richard Sonntag (1933-2010) American mechanical engineer | ● Philosophical thermodynamics ● Argument for/belief in the existence of God/Creationism ● Universal origins (low entropy state)/Eschatology ● Destiny of humans (second law) | [2] |
1980 | Daniel Barker Murphy (1928-) Viateur Rousseau (1914-2000) | ● Frederick Rossini ("Chemical Thermodynamics in the Real World", 1971); the chemical thermodynamic nature of freedom vs security, government (government thermodynamics), politics (political thermodynamics). ● Rossini debate (2006) | [7] |
1999 | Benjamin Kyle (1927-) American chemical engineer | ● Two cultures (C.P. Snow) ● Universal origins/Eschatology/Heat death (Friedrich Engels, Ivan Bazarov) ● Religious thermodynamics (William Inge, Pope Pius XII, Pierre Teilhard) ● Animate thermodynamics (life, origin of life; defunct theory of life) ● Social thermodynamics/Anthropological thermodynamics (Claude Levi-Strauss) ● History thermodynamics (Henry Adams) ● Economic thermodynamics (Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen) ● Ecological economics (Herman Daly, Jeremy Rifkin) ● Literature thermodynamics (John Barth, Donald Barthelme, Saul Bellow, Stanley Elkin, Norman Mailer, Walker Percy, Thomas Pynchon, John Updike) ● Art thermodynamics (Rudolf Arnheim) ● Philosophical thermodynamics (Kyle) ● Psychological thermodynamics (Sigmund Freud) | [3] |
1999 thru 2010 | Yunus Cengel (1955-) Turkey mechanical engineer Michael Boles (1943-) American mechanical engineer | ● Economic thermodynamics (Robert Ayres) ● Human thermodynamics (human performance/efficiency in daily existence, learning (low-entropy learning), work place friction, human friction, social friction (entropy generation), etc.) ● War thermodynamics See main: Cengel-Boles human thermodynamics | [4] |
2004 | Tominaga Keii (1920-2009) Japanese chemical engineer | ● Chemical Affinity in 1806 ● Human chemical thermodynamics: Elective Affinities; human elective affinity; human chemical reaction, Goethe's affinity table, Goethe's human chemistry (Johann Goethe) | [6] |
2003 thru 2010 | Michael Moran (c.1950-) American mechanical engineer Howard Shapiro (c.1947-) American mechanical engineer | ● A few economics problems and life and second law paradox problems; ● Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (1971), Erwin Schrodinger (1944), Ilya Prigogine (1971-2003), and Eric Schneider (2005) | [13] |
2010 | Hans Kreuzer (c.1945-) Canadian atmospheric physicist Isaac Tamblyn (c.1983-) Canadian physicist | ● Economic thermodynamics (Wayne Saslow) | [5] |
2010 | Harvey Gould (c.1941-) American physicist Jan Tobochnik (1958-) American natural scientist and physicist | ● Includes applications of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics to areas such as social networks and finance (Elliott Montroll, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Cesar Hildalgo, Jean-Phillippe Bouchard, Marc Potters, Nassim Taleb, etc.) ● Ising model to social behavior (social Ising model) (Dietrich Stauffer) | [12] |
2011 | Kalyan Annamalai Carlos Silva (co-author, formula chapter) Puri Ishwar Milind Jog | ● Human molecular formula (Libb Thims) [8] | |
2012 | Donna Riley | ● HumanThermodynamics.com (Libb Thims) ● Entropy as a social construct (sociological thermodynamics) ● Entropy’s philosophical implications (philosophical thermodynamics) ● Entropy and time (arrow of time) ● Entropy in learning, libraries, rooms, and armies (Cengel-Boles human thermodynamics) | [9] |
2014 | Bill Poirier | ● Henry Adams ● Literature thermodynamics | Bruce Clarke | |
2015/16 | Libb Thims (c.1975-) American electrochemical engineer (see: human chemical thermodynamics) | ● Full top to bottom step-by-step derivation of chemical thermodynamics (Parmenides → Otto Guericke → Sadi Carnot → Rudolf Clausius → Willard Gibbs → Gilbert Lewis → Edward Guggenheim → Fritz Lipmann), with focus on application to the various fields of the humanities (Johann Goethe → William Rankine → Lawrence Henderson → Frederick Rossini → Mirza Beg → modern human free energy theorists). | [11] |