Thermal physics: concepts and practice / Allen L. Wasserman
Imprint
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012
Descript
303 p. ill.; 25 cm
CONTENT
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introducing thermodynamics; 2. A road to thermodynamics; 3. Work, heat and the First Law; 4. A mathematical digression; 5. Thermodynamics potentials; 6. On knowing the unknowable; 7. The ideal gas; 8. The 2-level system; 9. Lattice heat capacity; 10. Elastomers -- entropy springs; 11. Thermodynamics of magnetism; 12. Open systems; 13. The amazing chemical potential; 14. Thermodynamics of radiation; 15. Ideal Fermi gas; 16. Ideal Bose-Einstein system; 17. Thermodynamics and the CMB; Appendices; Index