An introduction to statistical mechanics and thermodynamics /
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--
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| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Oxford ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Oxford graduate texts.
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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.