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020 _a9781118501016
040 _bEnglish.
_cCvSU-CCAT Campus Library.
_erda.
_aCvSU-CCAT Campus Library.
050 _aCIR QC 311
_bH37 2014
100 _aHardy, Robert J., 1935- author.
_93301
245 _aThermodynamics and statistical mechanics :
_ban integrated approach /
_cProfessor Robert J. Hardy and Professor Christian Binek.
260 _aChichester, West Sussex :
_bJohn Wiley & Sons Inc.,
_cc2014.
300 _axiv, 518 pages :
_billustrations,
_c25 cm
504 _aIncludes index.
505 _aFirst 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
520 _aThis 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.
546 _aEnglish text.
650 _aThermodynamics
_vTextbooks.
_93302
650 _aStatistical mechanics
_vTextbooks.
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650 _aStatistical mechanics.
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650 _aThermodynamics.
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700 _aBinek, Christian, author.
_93306
942 _cBK
_2lcc
_hQC 311 H37 2014
_kCIR
999 _c1086
_d1086