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Thermodynamics 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.
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Table of contents
- Thermal Physics: Concepts and Practice
- Tilte
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introducing thermodynamics
- 2 A road to thermodynamics
- 3 Work, heat and the First Law
- 4 A mathematical digression
- 5 Thermodynamic potentials
- 6 Knowing the "unknowable''
- 7 The ideal gas
- 8 The two-level system
- 9 Lattice heat capacity
- 10 Elastomers: entropy springs
- 11 Magnetic thermodynamics
- 12 Open systems
- 13 The amazing chemical potential
- 14 Thermodynamics of radiation
- 15 Ideal Fermi gas
- 16 Ideal BoseāEinstein system
- 17 Thermodynamics and the cosmic microwave background
- A Appendix A How pure is pure? An inequality
- B Appendix B Bias and the thermal Lagrangian
- C Appendix C Euler's homogeneous function theorem
- D Appendix D Occupation numbers and the partition function
- E Appendix E Density of states
- F Appendix F A lab experiment in elasticity
- G Appendix G Magnetic and electric fields in matter
- H Appendix H Maxwell's equations and electromagnetic fields
- I Appendix I FermiāDirac integrals
- J Appendix J BoseāEinstein integrals
- Index