Thermal Physics
Thermal Physics
£51.99
GBPThermodynamics has benefited from nearly 100 years of parallel development with quantum mechanics. As a result, thermal physics has been considerably enriched in concepts, technique and purpose, and now has a dominant role in the developments of physics, chemistry and biology. This unique book explores the meaning and application of these developments using quantum theory as the starting point. The book links thermal physics and quantum mechanics in a natural way. Concepts are combined with interesting examples, and entire chapters are dedicated to applying the principles to familiar, practical and unusual situations. Together with end-of-chapter exercises, this book gives advanced undergraduate and graduate students a modern perception and appreciation for this remarkable subject.
- Takes a contemporary approach to thermal physics, linking it to quantum mechanics by using quantum theory as a starting point
- Explores the application of thermal physics in physics, chemistry and biology
- Contains numerous examples, including whole chapters dedicated to using the concepts in familiar, practical and unusual situations
Product details
October 2011Hardback
9781107006492
318 pages
253 × 195 × 18 mm
0.86kg
55 b/w illus. 54 exercises
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introducing thermodynamics
- 2. Onward to thermodynamics
- 3. The First Law
- 4. A mathematical digression
- 5. Thermodynamics potentials
- 6. On knowing the unknowable
- 7. The ideal gas
- 8. The 2-level system
- 9. Lattice heat capacity
- 10. Elastomers - entropy springs
- 11. Thermodynamics of magnetism
- 12. Open systems
- 13. The amazing chemical potential
- 14. Thermodynamics of radiation
- 15. Ideal Fermi gas
- 16. Ideal Bose–Einstein system
- 17. Thermodynamics and the CMB
- Appendices
- Index.
