Michael J R Hoch

Statistical and Thermal Physics

An Introduction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Thermal and statistical physics has established the principles and procedures needed to understand and explain the properties of systems consisting of macroscopically large numbers of particles.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor and Francis
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9780367461348
• ISBN-10: 036746134X
• Artikelnr.: 60936287

Autorenporträt

Michael J.R. Hoch spent many years as a visiting scientist at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University, USA. Prior to this he was professor of physics and director of the Condensed Matter Physics Research Unit at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg where he is currently professor emeritus in the School of Physics.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I Classical Thermal Physics: The Microcanonical Ensemble Section IA
Introduction to Classical Thermal Physics Concepts: The First and Second
Laws of Thermodynamics Chapter 1 Introduction: Basic Concepts Chapter 2
Energy: The First Law Chapter 3 Entropy: The Second Law Section IB
Microstates and the Statistical Interpretation of Entropy Chapter 4
Microstates for Large Systems Chapter 5 Entropy and Temperature:
Microscopic Statistical Interpretation Chapter 6 Zero Kelvin and the Third
Law Section IC Applications of Thermodynamics to Gases and Condensed
Matter, Phase Transitions, and Critical Phenomena Chapter 7 Application of
Thermodynamics to Gases: The Maxwell Relations Chapter 8 Applications of
Thermodynamics to Condensed Matter Chapter 9 Phase Transitions and Critical
Phenomena PART II Quantum Statistical Physics and Thermal Physics
Applications Section IIA The Canonical and Grand Canonical Ensembles and
Distributions Chapter 10 Ensembles and the Canonical Distribution Chapter
11 The Grand Canonical Distribution Section IIB Quantum Distribution
Functions, Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein Statistics, Photons, and Phonons
Chapter 12 The Quantum Distribution Functions Chapter 13 Ideal Fermi Gas
Chapter 14 Ideal Bose Gas Chapter 15 Photons and Phonons: The "Planck Gas"
Section IIC The Classical Ideal Gas, Maxwell- Boltzmann Statistics,
Nonideal Systems Chapter 16 The Classical Ideal Gas Chapter 17 Nonideal
Systems Section IID The Density Matrix, Reactions and Related Processes,
and Introduction to Irreversible Thermodynamics Chapter 18 The Density
Matrix Chapter 19 Reactions and Related Processes Chapter 20 Introduction
to Irreversible Thermodynamics