Concepts in Thermal Physics

Name: Concepts in Thermal Physics
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ISBN: 9780199562107

ISBN-10: 0199562105

ISBN-13: 9780199562107

Edition: 2nd 2009

Authors: Stephen J. Blundell, Katherine M. Blundell

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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.

Book details

List price: $58.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/30/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 516
Size: 7.40" wide x 9.69" long x 0.95" tall
Weight: 2.640
Language: English




Preliminaries



Introduction



Heat



Probability



Temperature and the Boltzmann factor



Kinetic Theory Of Gases



The Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution



Pressure



Molecular effusion



The mean free path and collisions



Transport And Thermal Diffusion



Transport properties in gases



The thermal diffusion equation



The First Law



Energy



Isothermal and adiobatic processes



The Second Law



Heat engines and the second law



Entropy



Information theory



Thermodynamics In Action



Thermodynamic potentials



Rods, bubbles and magnets



The third law



Statistical Mechanics



Equipartition of energy



The partition function



Statistical mechanics of an ideal gas



The chemical potential



Photons



Phonons



Beyond The Ideal Gas



Relativistic gases



Real gases



Cooling real gases



Phase transitions



Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac distributions



Quantum gases and condensates



Special Topics



Sound waves



Shock waves



Brownian motion and fluctuations



Non-equilibrium thermodynamics



Stars



Compact objects



Earth's atmosphere