Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978. — XIII + 461 p. — ISBN 0-19-851142-6.Innovative and wide-ranging, this treatment combines precise mathematic style with strong physical intuition. Written by a well-known physicist for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, the book's broad spectrum of applications includes negative temperatures and heat capacities, general and special relativistic effects, black hole thermodynamics, gravitational collapse, energy conversion problems, and efficiencies including simple heat pump theory.The basic ideas and mathematical formulation of thermodynamics are presented in a modern, clear way with the Carathéodory method, which is employed fully, but in simple terms and without advanced mathematics. Statistical mechanics are based on ideas from information theory, and the simpler ideal systems are covered in close connection with the thermodynamic treatment. Mathematical steps are displayed in detail, and abundant problems include worked solutions.ThermodynamicsNature of and scope of thermodynamicsBasic concepts; the laws of thermodynamicsThermodynamics of simple systems using the first law onlyExact and inexact differentialsThe second lawAbsolute and empirical temperature scalesVariable particle numbersThe mass action law and the equilibrium constantsStatistical mechanicsTwo basic results in statistical mechanicsMean occupation numbers and negative temperaturesThe continuous spectrum approximationThe density of states functionsBosons: black-body radiationHeat capacities of oscillators and solidsFermi systemsFluctuationsSimple transport propertiesOutlookAppendicesInformation theoryThe algebra of lagrangian multipliersSolid anglesSpecial relativistic thermodynamics: some additional topicsSolutions of problemsBibliographical notesAuthor indexSubject indexТермодинамика. Аннотированный список литературы