Concepts in Thermal Physics
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 1 October 2009
- ISBN 9780199562107
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages512 pages
- Size 246x188x24 mm
- Weight 1067 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 250 b/w line illustrations, 35 b/w halftones 0
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Short description:
This modern introduction to thermal physics contains a step-by-step presentation of the key concepts. The text is copiously illustrated and each chapter contains several worked examples.
MoreLong description:
An understanding of thermal physics is crucial to much of modern physics, chemistry and engineering. This book provides a modern introduction to the main principles that are foundational to thermal physics, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. The key concepts are carefully presented in a clear way, and new ideas are illustrated with copious worked examples as well as a description of the historical background to their discovery. Applications are presented to subjects as diverse as stellar astrophysics, information and communication theory, condensed matter physics and climate change. Each chapter concludes with detailed exercises.
The second edition of this popular textbook maintains the structure and lively style of the first edition but extends its coverage of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics to include several new topics, including osmosis, diffusion problems, Bayes theorem, radiative transfer, the Ising model and Monte Carlo methods. New examples and exercises have been added throughout.
This is probably the best book I know of thermodynamics and statistical physics. The authors have done really a great job. [...] The contents of the book are organised in such way that it can be used for a standard undergraduate level course in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, where it is also possible to make the appropriate selection of the topics depending on the level and duration of the course. It could also be very useful as a source reference for lecturers in thermodynamics and statistical physics.
Table of Contents:
I: PRELIMINARIES
Introduction
Heat
Probability
Temperature and the Boltzmann factor
II: KINETIC THEORY OF GASES
The Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution
Pressure
Molecular effusion
The mean free path and collisions
III: TRANSPORT AND THERMAL DIFFUSION
Transport properties in gases
The thermal diffusion equation
IV: THE FIRST LAW
Energy
Isothermal and adiobatic processes
V: THE SECOND LAW
Heat engines and the second law
Entropy
Information theory
VI: THERMODYNAMICS IN ACTION
Thermodynamic potentials
Rods, bubbles and magnets
The third law
VII: STATISTICAL MECHANICS
Equipartition of energy
The partition function
Statistical mechanics of an ideal gas
The chemical potential
Photons
Phonons
VIII: BEYOND THE IDEAL GAS
Relativistic gases
Real gases
Cooling real gases
Phase transitions
Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac distributions
Quantum gases and condensates
IX: SPECIAL TOPICS
Sound waves
Shock waves
Brownian motion and fluctuations
Non-equilibrium thermodynamics
Stars
Compact objects
Earth's atmosphere
Concepts in Thermal Physics
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