Statistical physics : an entropic approach /
"This undergraduate textbook provides students with a statistical mechanical foundation to the classical laws of thermodynamics through a comprehensive treatment of the basics of classical thermodynamics, equilibrium statistical mechanics, irreversible thermodynamics, and statistical mechanics...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom :
John Wiley & Sons,
2013.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Disorder or uncertainty?
- 2. Classical thermodynamics
- 3. Applications of classical thermodynamics
- 4. Core ideas of statistical thermodynamics
- 5. Statistical thermodynamics of a system of harmonic oscillators
- 6. The Boltzmann factor and the canonical partition function
- 7. The grand canonical ensemble and grand partition function
- 8. Statistical models of entropy
- 9. Statistical thermodynamics of the classical ideal gas
- 10. Quantum gases
- 11. Boson gas
- 12. Fermion gas
- 13. Photon gas
- 14. Statistical thermodynamics of interacting particles
- 15. Thermodynamics away from equilibrium
- 16. The dynamics of probability
- 17. Fluctuation relations
- 18. Final remarks.