Statistical and Thermal Physics: Fundamentals and ApplicationsCRC Press, 8 okt. 2018 - 480 sidor 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 of the book introduces the subject inductively but rigorously, proceeding from the concrete and specific to the abstract and general. In clear physical language the book explains the key concepts, such as temperature, heat, entropy, free energy, chemical potential, and distributions, both classical and quantum. The second half of the book applies these concepts to a wide variety of phenomena, including perfect gases, heat engines, and transport processes. Each chapter contains fully worked examples and real-world problems drawn from physics, astronomy, biology, chemistry, electronics, and mechanical engineering. |
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Macrostates and Microstates | 31 |
Entropy Free Energy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics | 45 |
The Canonical Distribution The Boltzmann Factor and the Partition Function | 73 |
Continuous Energy Levels the Density of States and Equipartition | 107 |
Systems with a Variable Number of Particles The Chemical Potential | 139 |
Perfect Gases | 163 |
Transport Processes | 343 |
Expansion in Series | 369 |
Review of Quantized States | 375 |
Proof That the Zeroth Law Implies the Existence of Temperature | 381 |
Some Results in Probability Theory | 385 |
Differentials Partial Derivatives and the Maxwell Relations | 395 |
Standing Wave Solutions of the Wave Equation | 401 |
The Equipartition Theorem | 405 |
Ideal Gases and Solutions | 175 |
Black Body Radiation and the Photon Gas | 201 |
The Perfect Bose Gas BoseEinstein Condensation | 221 |
The Perfect Fermi Gas | 231 |
Electrons and Holes in Semiconductors | 251 |
Phase Transitions | 273 |
Heat Engines | 319 |
Some Results in the Kinetic Theory of Gases | 411 |
Glossary | 415 |
List of Symbols | 431 |
Physical Constants | 439 |
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