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Twenty Lectures on Thermodynamics
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Twenty Lectures on Thermodynamics is a course of lectures, parts of which the author has given various times over the last few years. The book gives the readers a bird's eye view of phenomenological and statistical thermodynamics. The book covers many areas in thermodynamics such as states and transition; adiabatic isolation; irreversibility; the first, second, third and Zeroth laws of thermodynamics; entropy and entropy law; the idea of the application of thermodynamics; pseudo-states; the quantum-static al canonical and grand canonical ensembles; and semi-classical gaseous systems. The text is recommended for physics students who are in need of a basic yet effective knowledge in the foundations of thermodynamics, as the book explains its many concepts in such an elementary and pedagogic manner, giving the readers a greater understanding of the core of the subject.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Twenty Lectureson Thermodynamics
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- PREFACE
- LECTURE 1. Preliminary Remarks
- LECTURE 2. Thermodynamic Systems
- LECTURE 3. States and Transitions. Adiabatic Isolation.Irreversibility
- LECTURE 4. The Second Law, Entropy and The Entropy Principle
- LECTURE 5. The First Law, Energy and Heat
- LECTURE 6. The Zeroth Law
- LECTURE 7. Entropy Revisited: Metrical Entropyand Absolute Temperature
- LECTURE 8. Constitutive Coordinates. Characteristic Functions
- LECTURE 9. The Sign of T. The Third Law
- LECTURE 10. Pseudo-states. Equilibrium Conditions. The Phase Rule
- LECTURE 11. The Idea of 'Applications of Thermodynamics'
- LECTURE 12. Pseudo-states Revisited: PhenomenologicalTheory of Fluctuations. Ensembles
- LECTURE 13. Microscopic Structure and Statistical Thermodynamics
- LECTURE 14. The Canonical Ensemble
- LECTURE 15. The Grand Canonical Ensemble. The Constant a.The Constant-Pressure Ensemble
- LECTURE 16. The Entropy Principle. Implications of the Third Law
- LECTURE 17. The Quantum-Statistical Canonicaland Grand Canonical Ensembles
- LECTURE 18. Semi-Classical Gaseous Systems
- LECTURE 19. Ideal Fermion and Boson Gases
- LECTURE 20. Historical Remarks. Negative Absolute Temperatures
- NOTES
- SOLUTIONS OF PROBLEMS
- LIST OF PRINCIPAL SYMBOLS
- INDEX