Jeffrey Olafsen

Sturge's Statistical and Thermal Physics, Second Edition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This fully revised and updated edition provides a uniquely accessible introduction to the principles and applications of statistical mechanics and thermodynamics. Based on the highly acclaimed text by famous physicist M.D. Sturge, it continues its emphasis on explaining concepts with simple mathematics and plain English.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 406
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 730g
• ISBN-13: 9780367779498
• ISBN-10: 0367779498
• Artikelnr.: 61211932

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey Olafsen is an Associate Professor of Physics at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. His research focuses on experimental non-equilibrium and nonlinear dynamics, including granular physics and biomechanics. The research in his laboratory has been primarily pursued with undergraduate researchers who are co-authors on his journal articles. The soft matter systems about which he publishes often draw on analogies to traditional thermodynamical systems.

Inhaltsangabe

SECTION I Preamble 1 Introduction 2 Temperature, Work, and Heat 3 Heat
Engines SECTION II The Fundamentals of Modern Thermodynamics 4 Macrostates
and Microstates 5 Entropy, Free Energy, and the Second Law of
Thermodynamics 6 The Canonical Distribution: The Boltzmann Factor and the
Partition Function 7 Continuous Energy Levels, the Density of States, and
Equipartition 8 Systems with a Variable Number of Particles: The Chemical
Potential SECTION III The Thermodynamics of Gases 9 Perfect Gases 10 Ideal
Gases and Solutions 11 Black Body Radiation and the Photon Gas 12 The
Perfect Bose Gas: Bose-Einstein Condensation 13 The Perfect Fermi Gas
SECTION IV Modern Thermostatistical Applications 14 Electrons and Holes in
Semiconductors 15 Phase Transitions 16 Transport Processes 17
Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics 18 Biological Systems