Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics
By: Walter Greiner, Ludwig Neise, Horst Stöcker.
Contributors: Neise, Ludwig.; Stocker, Horst.
Edition: Corrected 3rd printing.
Series: Classical theoretical physics
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 463
Subjects: Thermodynamics.; Statistical mechanics.; Quantum statistics.
Work titles: Thermodynamik und Statistische Mechanik.
Description: Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics covers: Thermodynamics - basic definitions of thermodynamics, equilibrium, state variables - the first and second laws - phase transitions and chemical reactions - thermodynamic potentials Statistical Mechanics - statistics of microscopic states and connection to the entropy - the microcanonical, canonical and grand canonical ensembles - applications of Boltzmann statistics Quantum Statistics - the density operator - many-particle wave functions - ideal quantum systems - the ideal Bose gas and applications to blackbody radiation, Kirchhoff's law, and lattice vibrations - the ideal Fermi gas and applications to condensed-matter physics, astrophysics, and nuclear physics - relativistic Bose and Fermi gases and applications to particle
Notes: Includes index.