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Thermodynamics and an Introduction to Thermostatistics, 2nd EditionISBN: 978-0-471-86256-7
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512 pages
January 1991, ©1985
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GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF CLASSICAL THERMODYNAMICS.
The Problem and the Postulates.
The Conditions of Equilibrium.
Some Formal Relationships, and Sample Systems.
Reversible Processes and the Maximum Work Theorem.
Alternative Formulations and Legendre Transformations.
The Extremum Principle in the Legendre Transformed Representations.
Maxwell Relations.
Stability of Thermodynamic Systems.
First-Order Phase Transitions.
Critical Phenomena.
The Nernst Postulate.
Summary of Principles for General Systems.
Properties of Materials.
Irreversible Thermodynamics.
STATISTICAL MECHANICS.
Statistical Mechanics in the Entropy Representation: The Microanonical Formalism.
The Canonical Formalism;
Statistical Mechanics in Helmholtz Representation.
Entropy and Disorder;
Generalized Canonical Formulations.
Quantum Fluids.
Fluctuations.
Variational Properties, Perturbation Expansions, and Mean Field Theory.
FOUNDATIONS.
Postlude: Symmetry and the Conceptual Foundations of Thermostatistics.
Appendices.
General References.
Index.
The Problem and the Postulates.
The Conditions of Equilibrium.
Some Formal Relationships, and Sample Systems.
Reversible Processes and the Maximum Work Theorem.
Alternative Formulations and Legendre Transformations.
The Extremum Principle in the Legendre Transformed Representations.
Maxwell Relations.
Stability of Thermodynamic Systems.
First-Order Phase Transitions.
Critical Phenomena.
The Nernst Postulate.
Summary of Principles for General Systems.
Properties of Materials.
Irreversible Thermodynamics.
STATISTICAL MECHANICS.
Statistical Mechanics in the Entropy Representation: The Microanonical Formalism.
The Canonical Formalism;
Statistical Mechanics in Helmholtz Representation.
Entropy and Disorder;
Generalized Canonical Formulations.
Quantum Fluids.
Fluctuations.
Variational Properties, Perturbation Expansions, and Mean Field Theory.
FOUNDATIONS.
Postlude: Symmetry and the Conceptual Foundations of Thermostatistics.
Appendices.
General References.
Index.
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