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Twenty Lectures on Thermodynamics
- 1st Edition - October 22, 2013
- Author: H. A. Buchdahl
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 1 8 0 2 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 5 0 4 4 - 4
Twenty Lectures on Thermodynamics is a course of lectures, parts of which the author has given various times over the last few years. The book gives the readers a bird's eye view… Read more
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Request a sales quoteTwenty Lectures on Thermodynamics is a course of lectures, parts of which the author has given various times over the last few years. The book gives the readers a bird's eye view of phenomenological and statistical thermodynamics. The book covers many areas in thermodynamics such as states and transition; adiabatic isolation; irreversibility; the first, second, third and Zeroth laws of thermodynamics; entropy and entropy law; the idea of the application of thermodynamics; pseudo-states; the quantum-static al canonical and grand canonical ensembles; and semi-classical gaseous systems. The text is recommended for physics students who are in need of a basic yet effective knowledge in the foundations of thermodynamics, as the book explains its many concepts in such an elementary and pedagogic manner, giving the readers a greater understanding of the core of the subject.
Preface
Lecture 1. Preliminary Remarks
Lecture 2. Thermodynamic Systems
Lecture 3. States and Transitions. Adiabatic Isolation. Irreversibility
Lecture 4. The Second Law. Entropy and the Entropy Principle
Lecture 5. The First Law. Energy and Heat
Lecture 6. The Zeroth Law
Lecture 7. Entropy Revisited: Metrical Entropy and Absolute Temperature
Lecture 8. Constitutive Coordinates. Characteristic Functions
Lecture 9. The Sign of T. The Third Law
Lecture 10. Pseudo-States. Equilibrium Conditions. The Phase Rule
Lecture 11. The Idea of 'Applications of Thermodynamics'
Lecture 12. Pseudo-States Revisited: Phenomenological Theory of Fluctuations. Ensembles
Lecture 13. Microscopic Structure and Statistical Thermodynamics
Lecture 14. The Canonical Ensemble
Lecture 15. The Grand Canonical Ensemble. The Constant A. The Constant-Pressure Ensemble
Lecture 16. The Entropy Principle. Implications of the Third Law
Lecture 17. The Quantum-Statistical Canonical and Grand Canonical Ensembles
Lecture 18. Semi-Classical Gaseous Systems
Lecture 19. Ideal Fermion and Boson Gases
Lecture 20. Historical Remarks. Negative Absolute Temperatures
Notes 1-75
Solutions of Problems
List of Principal Symbols
Index
- No. of pages: 114
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 22, 2013
- Imprint: Pergamon
- Paperback ISBN: 9781483118024
- eBook ISBN: 9781483150444
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