Problems in thermodynamics and statistical physics
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Problems in thermodynamics and statistical physics
Pion, c1971
Available at 31 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Covering a range of topics in thermodynamics, statistical physics and statistical mechanics, this work sets out to provide an examination of statistical physics and its uses. The chapters start with relatively easy problems which lead progressively to more difficult ones.
Table of Contents
- The laws of thermodynamics
- statistical theory of information and of ensembles
- statistical mechanics of ideal systems
- ideal classical gases of polyatomic molecules
- ideal relativistic classical and quantum gases
- non-electrolyte liquids and solutions
- phase stability, co-existence, and criticality
- surfaces
- the imperfect classical gas
- the imperfect quantum gas
- phase transitions
- cooperative phenomena
- green function methods
- the plasma
- negative temperatures and population inversion
- recombination rate theory in semiconductors
- transport in gases
- transport in metals
- transport in semiconductors
- fluctuations of energy and number of particles
- fluctuations of general classical mechanical variables
- fluctuations of thermodynamics variables
- time dependence of fluctuations - correlation functions, power spectra, Wiener-Khintchine relations
- Nyquist's theorem and its generalizations
- Onsager relations
- stochastic methods - master equation and Fokker-Planck equation
- ergodic theory, H-theorems, recurrence problems
- variational principles and minimum entropy production.
by "Nielsen BookData"