Solved Problems in Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics

✍ Scribed by Gregor Skačej ; Primož ziherl

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 292
• Edition: First ed. 2019
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book contains a modern selection of about 200 solved problems and examples arranged in a didactic way for hands-on experience with course work in a standard advanced undergraduate/first-year graduate class in thermodynamics and statistical physics. The principles of thermodynamics and equilibrium statistical physics are few and simple, but their application often proves more involved than it may seem at first sight. This book is a comprehensive complement to any textbook in the field, emphasizing the analogies between the different systems, and paves the way for an in-depth study of solid state physics, soft matter physics, and field theory.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Contents
Part I Thermodynamics
1 Equation of State
2 The First Law
3 The Second Law
4 Thermodynamic Potentials
5 Phase Transitions
6 Mixtures
7 Transport Phenomena
Part II Statistical Physics
8 Classical Canonical Ensemble
9 Equation of State
10 Entropy
11 Quantum Canonical Ensemble
12 Grand Canonical Ensemble
13 Kinetic Theory of Gases
Appendix A Steam Tables
Appendix B Metropolis Algorithm
Appendix References
Index