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Modern Thermodynamics with Statistical Mechanics

By Carl S. Helrich (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2009
ISBN
3540854177
DOI
10.1007/978-3-540-85418-0
LCC
QC311.5 .H44 2009
Open Library ID
OL24103180M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4215319 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
402\403
Topic
Physics
Library
Kolxo3
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11
FluidsThermodynamics;Physical ChemistryThermodynamics;Statistical Physics;Biophysics/Biom

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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