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Nowadays, when many new branches of technology are developing rapidly, one can hardly imagine a modern course of engineering thermodynamics which does not dwell on such problems as the ther modynamics of dielectrics, magnetic substances, and superconductors, the thermodynamics of systems in a gravitational field and in weightlessness, etc. At the same time the size of ordinary textbooks and manuals on engineering thermodynamics does not, as a rule, permit the authors to discuss these important questions more exiensively. For this reason a special book devoted to these problems ,was considered necessary. The idea of writing this book was suggested by my teachers, V.A. Kirillin and A.E. Sheindlin, when we worked together on the textbook Engineering Thermodynamics, which appeared in 1968 {English edition: Mir Publishers, Moscow, 1976,1981]. In methodological arrangeinent and structure the present book is intended as a kind of supplement to that textbook. The object is to give a unified description of various physical phenomena and processes of primary interest to modern engineering and, particularly, to demonstrate the universal application of thermodynamic methods to the solution of a variety of problems with greater elaboration of the technical aspects. Undoubtedly, the title of the book is not a very fortuna te one. But the title that would better convey the subject matter of the book, "Engineering Thermodynamics of Systems Performing Other Work Besides Work of Expansion", is too long to be adopted. The book is intended primarily for students and postgraduates majoring in thermal physics and physical engineering, as well as for students of physico-technical specialities. The course of lectures read by me to the students of the Moscow Physico-Technical Institute serves as the basis of the book. I hope that some pages may prove useful to scientists specializing in the above fields. It is assumed the reader has the usual background of general or engineering thermodynamics. Introductory information which might be used for reference is given briefly in Chapter 1.