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- Solutions manual available on request from the publisher's website.
- Clear exposition and reader-friendly style.
- Many helpful figures.
- Lots of short, easily digestible chapters.
- Modern, relevant examples involving exciting areas of physics
- Mathematical ideas summarised in comprehensive appendices.
New to this edition - The second edition of this popular textbook maintains the structure and lively style of the first edition but extends its coverage of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics to include several new topics, including osmosis, diffusion problems, Bayes theorem, radiative transfer, the Ising model and Monte Carlo methods. New examples and exercises have been added throughout.
An understanding of thermal physics is crucial to much of modern physics, chemistry and engineering. This book provides a modern introduction to the main principles that are foundational to thermal physics,
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Graduate students in physics and all these subjects. Researchers in physical science subjects wanting an accessible and relevant resource for thermal physics.
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Stephen J. Blundell, University of Oxford, UK, and Katherine M. Blundell, University of Oxford, UK
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"This is probably the best book I know of thermodynamics and statistical physics. The authors have done really a great job. [...] The contents of the book are organised in such way that it can be used for a standard undergraduate level course in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, where it is also possible to make the appropriate selection of the topics depending on the level and duration of the course. It could also be very useful as a source reference for lecturers in thermodynamics and statistical physics." - M.A.F. Sanjuan, Contemporary Physics
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I: PRELIMINARIES
1: Introduction
2: Heat
3: Probability
4: Temperature and the Boltzmann factor
II: KINETIC THEORY OF GASES
5: The Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution
6: Pressure
7: Molecular effusion
8: The mean free path and collisions
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9: Transport properties in gases
10: The thermal diffusion equation
IV: THE FIRST LAW
11: Energy
12: Isothermal and adiobatic processes
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14: Entropy
15: Information theory
VI: THERMODYNAMICS IN ACTION
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17: Rods, bubbles and magnets
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19: Equipartition of energy
20: The partition function
21: Statistical mechanics of an ideal gas
22: The chemical potential
23: Photons
24: Phonons
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25: Relativistic gases
26: Real gases
27: Cooling real gases
28: Phase transitions
29: Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac distributions
30: Quantum gases and condensates
IX: SPECIAL TOPICS
31: Sound waves
32: Shock waves
33: Brownian motion and fluctuations
34: Non-equilibrium thermodynamics
35: Stars
36: Compact objects
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