Statistical Thermodynamics - Fundamentals and Applications

✍ Scribed by Laurendeau, Normand M.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 446
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book discusses the fundamentals and applications of statistical thermodynamics for beginning graduate students in the engineering sciences. This book features a step-by-step development of the subject with few presumptions concerning previous exposure of students to statistics, quantum mechanics or spectroscopy. Each chapter is carefully written to address student difficulties in learning this challenging subject, which is fundamental to combustion, propulsion, transport phenomena, spectroscopic measurements and nanotechnology. Students are made comfortable with their new knowledge by the inclusion of both example and prompted homework problems.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter
• Preface
• Table of Contents
1. Introduction
•Part I. Fundamentals of Statistical Thermodynamics 2. Probability and Statistics
• Problem Set I. Probability Theory and Statistical Mathematics (Chapter 2)
3. The Statistics of Independent Particles
4. Thermodynamic Properties in the Dilute Limit
• Problem Set II. Statistical Modeling for Thermodynamics (Chapters 3-4)
•Part II. Quantum Mechanics and Spectroscopy 5. Basics of Quantum Mechanics
6. Quantum Analysis of Internal Energy Modes
7. The Spectroscopy of Diatomic Molecules
• Problem Set III. Quantum Mechanics and Spectroscopy (Chapters 5-7)
•Part III. Statistical Thermodynamics in the Dilute Limit 8. Interlude: From Particle to Assembly
9. Thermodynamic Properties of the Ideal Gas
• Problem Set IV. Thermodynamic Properties of the Ideal Gas (Chapters 8-9)
10. Statistical Thermodynamics for Ideal Gas Mixtures
11. Concentration and Temperature Measurements
• Problem Set V. Chemical Equilibrium and Diagnostics (Chapters 10-11)
•Part IV. Statistical Thermodynamics beyond the Dilute Limit 12. Thermodynamics and Information
13. Elements of the Solid State
14. Equilibrium Radiation
• Problem Set VI. The Solid State and Radiation (Chapters 13-14)
•Part V. Nonequilibrium Statistical Thermodynamics 15. Elementary Kinetic Theory
16. Kinetics of Molecular Transport
17. Chemical Kinetics
• Problem Set VII. Kinetic Theory and Molecular Transport (Chapters 15-17)
•Part VI. The Ensemble Method of Statistical Thermodynamics 18. The Canonical and Grand Canonical Ensembles
19. Applications of Ensemble Theory to Real Gases
• Problem Set VIII. Ensemble Theory and the Nonideal Gas (Chapters 18-19)
20. Whence and Whither
•Part VII. Appendices• Appendix A: Physical Constants and Conversion Factors
• Appendix B: Series and Integrals
• Appendix C: Periodic Table
Appendix D: Mathematical Procedures
• Appendix E: Thermochemical Data for Ideal Gases
• Appendix F: Summary of Classical Thermodynamics
• Appendix G: Review of Classical Mechanics
• Appendix H: Review of Operator Theory
• Appendix I: The Spherical Coordinate System
Appendix J: Electronic Energy Levels
Appendix K: Energy-Mode Parameters for Molecules
• Appendix L: Normal Mode Analysis
• Appendix M: Tabulation of Debye Function
• Appendix N: Maxwell-Boltzmann Energy Distribution
• Appendix O: Force Constants for the Lennard-Jones Potential
• Appendix P: Collision Integrals for Calculating Transport Properties from the Lennard-Jones Potential
• Appendix Q: Reduced Second Virial Coefficient from the Lennard-Jones Potential
Appendix R: References and Acknowledgments
Index