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9780191775123

An Introduction to Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics

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  • ISBN13:

    9780191775123

  • ISBN10:

    0191775126

  • Format: eBook
  • Copyright: 2013-12-19
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Table of Contents


1. Introduction
I Entropy
2. Classical Ideal Gas
3. Discrete probability theory
4. Configurational entropy
5. Continuous random numbers
6. Classical ideal gas: Energy
7. Ideal and "real" gases
8. T, P, m, and all that
II Introduction to Thermodynamics
9. Postulates and Laws of thermodynamics
10. Thermodynamic perturbations
11. Thermodynamic processes
12. Thermodynamic potentials
13. Extensivity
14. Thermodynamic identities
15. Extremum principles
16. Stability conditions
17. Phase transitions
18. Nernst postulate
III Classical statistical mechanics
19. Classical ensembles
20. Classical ensembles: grand and otherwise
21. Irreversibility
IV Quantum statistical mechanics
22. Quantum ensembles
23. Quantum canoncial ensemble
24. Black-body radiation
25. The harmonic solid
26. Ideal quantum gases
27. Bose-Einstein statistics
28. Fermi-Dirac statistics
29. Insulators and semiconductors
30. The Ising model

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