Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics
Subtitle: an integrated approach
By: Robert J. Hardy and Christian Binek,  Department of Physics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Contributors: Binek, Christian, author
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 518
ISBN-13: 9781118501016; 9781118501009
Subjects: Thermodynamics; Textbooks; Statistical mechanics
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: First law of thermodynamics; title: Properties and partial derivatives; title: Processes in gases; title: Phase transitions; title: Reversible and irreversible processes; title: The second law and carnot cycles; title: Temperature scales and absolute zero; title: State space and differentials; title: Entropy; title: Consequences of existence of entropy; title: Thermodynamic potentials; title: Phase transitions and open systems; title: Dielectric and magnetic systems; title: Molecular models; title: Kinetic theory of gases; title: Microscopic significance of entropy; title: Ensembles; title: Partition function; title: Quantum systems; title: Independent particles and paramagnetism; title: Fluctuations and energy distributions; title: Generalizations and diatomic gasesi; title: Photons and phonons; title: Grand canonical ensemble; title: Fermions and bosons; title: Fermi and bose gases; title: Inter-particle interactions; title: Computer simulations.