General and Statistical Thermodynamics /

This textbook provides comprehensive information on general and statistical thermodynamics. It begins with an introductory statistical mechanics course, deriving all the important formulae meticulously and explicitly, without mathematical shortcuts. In turn, the main part of the book focuses on in-d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tahir-Kheli, Raza (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2020.
Edition:2nd ed. 2020.
Series:Graduate Texts in Physics,
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction and Zeroth Law
  • Perfect Gas
  • The First Law
  • The Second Law
  • First and Second Laws Combined
  • Van der Waals Theory: Imperfect Gases
  • Internal Energy and Enthalpy
  • Fundamental Equation
  • Thermodynamic Potentials
  • Statistical Thermodynamics:Third Law
  • The Cooper Pair
  • The Bogoliubov Transformation
  • Superconductivity.