![]() THERMAL PHYSICS
Entropy and Free Energies
(2nd Edition)
by Joon Chang Lee (University of Southern Mississippi, USA)
392pp
978-981-4340-76-2: US$78 / £48 US$54.60
/ £33.60
Table
of Contents (81k)
Preface
(85k)
Chapter
1: Introduction to Thermal Physics (123k)
Chapter
2: All You Need to Know to Read the Rest of the Book (257k)
Chapter
3: Isolated Thermal Systems (558k)
The book aims to explain the basic ideas of thermal physics
intuitively and in the simplest possible way. It is aimed at making the
reader feel comfortable with the ideas of entropy and free energy.
Thermal physics is prone to misunderstanding, confusion and is often
being overlooked. However, a good foundation is necessary to prepare
the reader for advanced level studies.
Contents:
- Introduction to Thermal Physics
- All You Need to Know to Read the Rest of the
Book
- Isolated Thermal Systems
- Systems in Contact with a Thermal Reservoir
- Entropy as a Measure of Disorder
- Open Systems Exposed to Heat and Particle
Reservoir
- Flexible Systems: Systems in Contact with Heat
and Volume Reservoir
- Two More Energy-Like Functions and Concluding
Remarks
- Quantum Ideal Gas
- Thermodynamics
- Energy Versus Free Energy
- Phases and Phase Transitions
- Second-Order Phase Transitions
- Landau-Ginzburg Free Energy Functional and
Applications
- Quantum Fluid
- Computer Simulations
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