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Modern Thermodynamics with Statistical Mechanics

By Carl S. Helrich

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2010
ISBN
3642099092, 9783642099090
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6302885 bytes)
Edition
Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009
Pages
402\417
Library
dcisneros
Scanned
yes
Time added
2014-09-06 04:04:15
молекулярная и статистическая физикаФизика;Термодинамика

Description

With the aim of presenting thermodynamics in as simple and as unified a form as possible, this textbook starts with an introduction to the first and second laws and then promptly addresses the complete set of the potentials in a subsequent chapter and as a central theme throughout. Before discussing modern laboratory measurements, the book shows that the fundamental quantities sought in the laboratory are those which are required for determining the potentials. Since the subjects of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics are a seamless whole, statistical mechanics is treated as integral part of the text. Other key topics such as irreversibility, the ideas of Ilya Prigogine, chemical reaction rates, equilibrium of heterogeneous systems, and transition-state theory serve to round out this modern treatment. An additional chapter covers quantum statistical mechanics due to active current research in Bose-Einstein condensation. End-of-chapter exercises, chapter summaries, and an appendix reviewing fundamental prerequisites supply students with helpful reinforcement and practice with key concepts.

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