Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
- 1st Edition - January 1, 1968
- Imprint: Pergamon
- Author: J. E. Mayer
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 9 9 7 3 - 3
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 1 1 3 3 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 2 4 7 6 - 3
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Request a sales quoteThe International Encyclopedia of Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics, Volume 1: Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics covers the fundamental principles and the development of theoretical aspects of equilibrium statistical mechanics. Statistical mechanical is the study of the connection between the macroscopic behavior of bulk matter and the microscopic properties of its constituent atoms and molecules. This book contains eight chapters, and begins with a presentation of the master equation used for the calculation of the fundamental thermodynamic functions. The succeeding chapters highlight the characteristics of the partition function and its application to the analysis of perfect and imperfect gases, solids, and dense fluids. These topics are followed by discussions on the fundamentals of quantum statistics, with particular emphasis on its application in certain media. The last chapter outlines the derivation of the relations between the partition functions and the thermodynamic quantities. This book will be of value to physical chemists, chemical physicists, mathematicians, and researchers in the allied fields of statistical mechanics.
Chapter 1 A Master Equation and Two Partition Functions 1.1 The Scope of Statistical Mechanics 1.2 A Master Equation 1.3 The Average of a Mechanical Property 1.4 The Grand Canonical and Canonical Partition Functions 1.5 Perfect Gases 1.6 The Occupancy of a Molecular Quantum State 1.7 PF-Energy Relationship for Monatomic Perfect GasesChapter 2 General Characteristics of the Partition Function 2.1 Separability of the Hamiltonian 2.2 Bose-Einstein, Fermi-Dirac and Boltzmann Systems 2.3 The Classical Limit 2.4 Heat Capacity and Equipartition 2.5 Symmetry Number 2.6 Isotopes 2.7 Nuclear Spm 2.8 Coordinate TransformationsChapter 3 Perfect Gases and the Internal Partition Function 3.1 Monatomic Molecules 3.2 Diatomic Molecules 3.3 The Oscillator Partition Function 3.4 The Linear Rotator Function 3.5 Molecular Hydrogen 3.6 Polyatomic Molecules 3.7 Polyatomic Rotator Function 3.8 Polyatomic Normal Coordinates 3.9 Polyatomic Molecule Symmetries 3.10 Perfect Gas Thermodynamic FunctionsChapter 4 Imperfect Gases 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Simple Cluster Functions 4.3 The Virial Expansion 4.4 Proof of the Virial Development 4.5 Interpretation of P
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 1, 1968
- No. of pages (eBook): 252
- Imprint: Pergamon
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9781483199733
- Paperback ISBN: 9781483211336
- eBook ISBN: 9781483224763
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