Statistical and Thermal Physics : Fundamentals and Applications /

"This book is based on many years of teaching statistical and thermal physics. It assumes no previous knowledge of thermodynamics, kinetic theory, or probability---the only prerequisites are an elementary knowledge of classical and modern physics, and of multivariable calculus. The first half o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sturge, M.D (Author)
Corporate Author:	Taylor & Francis
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, 2003.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Computational Physics Statistical Physics Mathematical Physics ARCHIVEnetBASE Mathematical physics. Physics > Data processing. Statistical physics. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

chapter 1 Introduction
chapter 2 Temperature, Work, and Heat
chapter 3 Macrostates and Microstates
chapter 4 Entropy, Free Energy, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
chapter 5 The Canonical Distribution: The Boltzmann Factor and the Partition Function
chapter 6 Continuous Energy Levels, the Density of States, and Equipartition
chapter 7 Systems with a Variable Number of Particles: The Chemical Potential
chapter 8 Perfect Gases
chapter 9 Ideal Gases and Solutions
chapter 10 Black Body Radiation and the Photon Gas
chapter 11 The Perfect Bose Gas: Bose-Einstein Condensation
chapter 12 The Perfect Fermi Gas
chapter 13 Electrons and Holes in Semiconductors
chapter 14 Phase Transitions
chapter 15 Heat Engines
chapter 16 Transport Processes.