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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: An
    title: introduction to statistical mechanics and thermodynamics
  name:
    name part: Swendsen, Robert H.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xx, 401 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: This text presents statistical mechanics and thermodynamics as a theoretically integrated field of study. It stresses deep coverage of fundamentals, providing a natural foundation for advanced topics.
  table of contents: Introduction -- The classical ideal gas -- Discrete probability theory -- The classical ideal gas: configurational entropy -- Continuous random numbers -- The classical ideal gas: energy-dependence -- Classical gases: ideal and otherwise -- Temperature, pressure, chemical potential, and all that -- The postulates and laws of thermodynamics -- Perturbations of thermodynamic state functions -- Thermodynamic processes -- Thermodynamic potentials -- The consequences of extensivity -- Thermodynamic identities -- Extremum principles -- Stability conditions -- Phase transitions -- The Nernst postulate: the third law of thermodynamics -- Ensembles in classical statistical mechanics -- Classical ensembles: grand and otherwise -- Irreversibility -- Quantum ensembles -- Quantum canonical ensemble -- Black-body radiation -- The harmonic solid -- Ideal quantum gases -- Bose-Einstein statistics -- Fermi-Dirac statistics -- Insulators and semiconductors -- Phase transitions and the Ising model -- Appendix: computer calculations and VPython.
  note: by Robert H. Swendsen.
  note: Includes index.
  subject:
    topic: Statistical mechanics
  subject:
    topic: Thermodynamics
  classification: 530.13
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Oxford graduate texts
  identifier: 9780199646944 (hbk.)
  identifier: 0199646945 (hbk.)
  identifier: 2011945381
  record info:
    record content source: UKMGB
    record creation date: 111111
    record change date: 20151202170931.0
    record identifier: in00002759733