Stephen J. Blundell (, University of Oxford, UK), Katherine M. Blundell (, University of Oxford, UK)

Concepts in Thermal Physics

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Produktbeschreibung

This modern introduction to thermal physics contains a step-by-step presentation of the key concepts. The text is copiously illustrated and each chapter contains several worked examples.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• 2nd ed.
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 189mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1116g
• ISBN-13: 9780199562107
• ISBN-10: 0199562105
• Artikelnr.: 26562832

Autorenporträt

Stephen Blundell did his undergraduate degree in Physics and Theoretical Physics at Peterhouse, Cambridge and his Ph. D. in the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge. He moved to the Clarendon Laboratory at Oxford to take up an SERC research fellowship, followed by a Junior Research Fellowship at Merton College, where he began research in organic magnets and superconductors using muon-spin rotation. In 1997 he was appointed to a University Lectureship in the Physics Department and a Tutorial Fellowship at Mansfield College, Oxford, and was subsequently promoted to Reader and then Professor. He was a joint winner of the Daiwa-Adrian Prize in 1999 for his work on organic magnets. Katherine Blundell did her undergraduate degree in Physics and Theoretical Physics at New Hall College, Cambridge and her Ph. D. in the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge. She moved to Oxford University Astrophysics department, holding a Junior Research Fellowship at Balliol College, an 1851 Research Fellowship, before taking up a Royal Society University Research Fellowship. Her research concentrates on radio galaxies and quasars. In 2005 she won a Leverhulme prize for her research, and became a Professor of Astrophysics in 2008.

Inhaltsangabe

I: PRELIMINARIES
1: Introduction
2: Heat
3: Probability
4: Temperature and the Boltzmann factor
II: KINETIC THEORY OF GASES
5: The Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution
6: Pressure
7: Molecular effusion
8: The mean free path and collisions
III: TRANSPORT AND THERMAL DIFFUSION
9: Transport properties in gases
10: The thermal diffusion equation
IV: THE FIRST LAW
11: Energy
12: Isothermal and adiobatic processes
V: THE SECOND LAW
13: Heat engines and the second law
14: Entropy
15: Information theory
VI: THERMODYNAMICS IN ACTION
16: Thermodynamic potentials
17: Rods, bubbles and magnets
18: The third law
VII: STATISTICAL MECHANICS
19: Equipartition of energy
20: The partition function
21: Statistical mechanics of an ideal gas
22: The chemical potential
23: Photons
24: Phonons
VIII: BEYOND THE IDEAL GAS
25: Relativistic gases
26: Real gases
27: Cooling real gases
28: Phase transitions
29: Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac distributions
30: Quantum gases and condensates
IX: SPECIAL TOPICS
31: Sound waves
32: Shock waves
33: Brownian motion and fluctuations
34: Non-equilibrium thermodynamics
35: Stars
36: Compact objects
37: Earth's atmosphere

Rezensionen

This is probably the best book I know of thermodynamics and statistical physics. The authors have done really a great job. [...] The contents of the book are organised in such way that it can be used for a standard undergraduate level course in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, where it is also possible to make the appropriate selection of the topics depending on the level and duration of the course. It could also be very useful as a source reference for lecturers in thermodynamics and statistical physics. M.A.F. Sanjuan, Contemporary Physics