TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hardy, Robert J., 1935- author.
AU  - Binek, Christian, author.
TI  - Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics : : an integrated approach 
SN  - 9781118501016
AV  - CIR QC 311 H37 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Chichester, West Sussex : 
PB  - John Wiley & Sons Inc., 
KW  - Thermodynamics
KW  - Textbooks
KW  - Statistical mechanics
KW  - Statistical mechanics.
KW  - Thermodynamics.
N1  - Includes index; First law of thermodynamics -- Properties and partial derivatives -- Processes in gases -- Phase transitions -- Reversible and irreversible processes -- The second law and carnot cycles -- Temperature scales and absolute zero -- State space and differentials -- Entropy -- Consequences of existence of entropy -- Thermodynamic potentials -- Phase transitions and open systems -- Dielectric and magnetic systems -- Molecular models -- Kinetic theory of gases -- Microscopic significance of entropy -- Ensembles -- Partition function -- Quantum systems -- Independent particles and paramagnetism -- Fluctuations and energy distributions -- Generalizations and diatomic gasesi -- Photons and phonons -- Grand canonical ensemble -- Fermions and bosons -- Fermi and bose gases -- Inter-particle interactions -- Computer simulations
N2  - This textbook brings together the fundamentals of the macroscopic and microscopic aspects of thermal physics by presenting thermodynamics and statistical mechanics as complementary theories based on small numbers of postulates.
ER  -