Thermal Physics

by Kittel, Charles; Kroemer, Herbert

• ISBN13: 9780716710882
• ISBN10: 0716710889
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1980-01-15
• Publisher: W. H. Freeman

Summary

CONGRATULATIONS TO HERBERT KROEMER, 2000 NOBEL LAUREATE FOR PHYSICS For upper-division courses in thermodynamics or statistical mechanics, Kittel and Kroemer offers a modern approach to thermal physics that is based on the idea that all physical systems can be described in terms of their discrete quantum states, rather than drawing on 19th-century classical mechanics concepts.

Table of Contents

Guide to Fundamental Definitions	xiii	(2)
General References	xv
Introduction	1	(4)
Chapter 1 States of a Model System	5	(22)
Chapter 2 Entropy and Temperature	27	(28)
Chapter 3 Boltzmann Distribution and Helmholtz Free Energy	55	(32)
Chapter 4 Thermal Radiation and Planck Distribution	87	(30)
Chapter 5 Chemical Potential and Gibbs Distribution	117	(34)
Chapter 6 Ideal Gas	151	(30)
Chapter 7 Fermi and Bose Gases	181	(44)
Chapter 8 Heat and Work	225	(36)
Chapter 9 Gibbs Free Energy and Chemical Reactions	261	(14)
Chapter 10 Phase Transformations	275	(34)
Chapter 11 Binary Mixtures	309	(24)
Chapter 12 Cryogenics	333	(20)
Chapter 13 Semiconductor Statistics	353	(36)
Chapter 14 Kinetic Theory	389	(34)
Chapter 15 Propagation	423	(16)
Appendix A Some Integrals Containing Exponentials	439	(6)
Appendix B Temperature Scales	445	(8)
Appendix C Poisson Distribution	453	(6)
Appendix D Pressure	459	(1)
Appendix E Negative Temperature	460	(5)
Index	465