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Thermal physics : concepts and practice /
"Thermodynamics has benefited from nearly 100 years of parallel development with quantum mechanics. As a result, thermal physics has been considerably enriched in concepts, technique and purpose, and now has a dominant role in the developments of physics, chemistry and biology. This unique book...
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Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Accesso online: | http://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/06492/cover/9781107006492.jpg |
Sommario:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introducing thermodynamics; 2. Onward to thermodynamics; 3. 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.