Thermodynamics: For Physicists, Chemists and Materials Scientists

✍ Scribed by Reinhard Hentschke (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 308
• Series: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Thermodynamics is the foundation of many-body physics and thus of physical chemistry and material science as well. Today new sources of useful energy, energy storage, transport and conversion, requiring development of novel technology, are of rapidly increasing importance. This development strongly affects modern industry. Thus, thermodynamics will have to be given more prominence in the science curriculum in colleges and universities - something that is attempted in this book.
The structure of this text is simple and transparent, enabling the easy mapping of the text onto a one-semester course syllabus and the attendant study. There are 8 chapters total and one three-part appendix. Throughout the text the student finds numerous examples (solved problems) reaching from cosmic to molecular evolution or from cloud formation to Bose condensation.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Two Fundamental Laws of Nature....Pages 1-26
Thermodynamic Functions....Pages 27-72
Equilibrium and Stability....Pages 73-123
Simple Phase Diagrams....Pages 125-171
Microscopic Interactions....Pages 173-219
Thermodynamics and Molecular Simulation....Pages 221-238
Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics....Pages 239-279
Back Matter....Pages 281-304

✦ Subjects

Thermodynamics;Physical Chemistry;Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity;Numerical and Computational Physics;Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer