Statistical and Thermal Physics: Fundamentals and Applications

✍ Scribed by M.D. Sturge (Author)

Publisher: A K Peters/CRC Press
Year: 2003
Leaves: 481
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book is based on many years of teaching statistical and thermal physics. It assumes no previous knowledge of thermodynamics, kinetic theory, or probability---the only prerequisites are an elementary knowledge of classical and modern physics, and of multivariable calculus. The first half of the book introduces the subject inductively but rigorously, proceeding from the concrete and specific to the abstract and general. In clear physical language the book explains the key concepts, such as temperature, heat, entropy, free energy, chemical potential, and distributions, both classical and quantum. The second half of the book applies these concepts to a wide variety of phenomena, including perfect gases, heat engines, and transport processes. Each chapter contains fully worked examples and real-world problems drawn from physics, astronomy, biology, chemistry, electronics, and mechanical engineering.

✦ Subjects

Mathematics & Statistics;Applied Mathematics;Mathematical Physics;Physical Sciences;Physics;Computational Physics;Statistical Physics

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