General and Statistical Thermodynamics

✍ Scribed by Raza Tahir-Kheli (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 686
• Series: Graduate Texts in Physics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This textbook explains completely the general and statistical thermodynamics. It begins with an introductory statistical mechanics course, deriving all the important formulae meticulously and explicitly, without mathematical short cuts. The main part of the book deals with the careful discussion of the concepts and laws of thermodynamics, van der Waals, Kelvin and Claudius theories, ideal and real gases, thermodynamic potentials, phonons and all the related aspects. To elucidate the concepts introduced and to provide practical problem solving support, numerous carefully worked examples are of great value for students. The text is clearly written and punctuated with many interesting anecdotes. This book is written as main textbook for upper undergraduate students attending a course on thermodynamics.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxix
Introduction and Zeroth Law....Pages 1-21
Perfect Gas....Pages 23-55
The First Law....Pages 57-124
The Second Law....Pages 125-210
First and Second Laws Combined....Pages 211-253
Van der Waals Theory of Imperfect Gases....Pages 255-302
Internal Energy and Enthalpy: Measurement and Related Examples....Pages 303-336
Fundamental Equation and the Equations of State....Pages 337-352
Zeroth Law Revisited; Motive Forces; Thermodynamic Stability....Pages 353-372
Energy and Entropy Extrema; Legendre Transformations; Thermodynamic Potentials; Clausius–Clapeyron Equation; Gibbs Phase Rule....Pages 373-407
Statistical Thermodynamics: Third Law....Pages 409-569
Back Matter....Pages 571-677

✦ Subjects

Thermodynamics;Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity;Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer;Mathematical Methods in Physics