Statistical thermodynamics : fundamentals and applications
Statistical Thermodynamics: Fundamentals and Applications discusses the fundamentals and applications of statistical thermodynamics for beginning graduate students. This book features a step-by-step development of the subject with each chapter carefully written to address student difficulties in lea...
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| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
| Published |
New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
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| Subjects | |
| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 0521846358 9780521846356 0511139853 9780511139857 0511140622 9780511140624 051113908X 9780511139086 9780511138492 0511138490 9780511815928 0511815921 9780521154192 0521154197 |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xvi, 448 pages) : illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Probability and statistics
- The statistics of independent particles
- Thermodynamic properties in the dilute limit
- Basics of quantum mechanics
- Quantum analysis of internal energy modes
- The spectroscopy of diatomic molecules
- Interlude: from particle to assembly
- Thermodynamic properties of the ideal gas
- Statistical thermodynamics for ideal gas mixtures
- Concentration and temperature measurements
- Thermodynamics and information
- Elements of the solid state
- Equilibrium radiation
- Elementary kinetic theory
- Kinetics of molecular transport
- Chemical kinetics
- The canonical and grand canonical ensembles
- Applications of ensemble theory to real gases
- Whence and whither.