Screen LibraryThermodynamics and statistical mechanics : an integrated approach /
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John Wiley & Sons Inc.,
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| Publisher Address: | Chichester, West Sussex : |
| Publication Dates: | 2014. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 518 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| ISBN: |
9781118501016 (hardback) : 1118501012 (cloth) 9781118501009 (paperback) 1118501004 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | QC311 |
| CLC: |
O414.2-43 O414.1-43 |
| Call Number: | O414.1-43/H258 |
| Contents: | First law of thermodynamics -- Properties and partial derivatives -- Processes in gases -- Phase transitions -- Reversible and irreversible processes -- The second law and carnot cycles -- Temperature scales and absolute zero -- State space and differentials -- Entropy -- Consequences of existence of entropy -- Thermodynamic potentials -- Phase transitions and open systems -- Dielectric and magnetic systems -- Molecular models -- Kinetic theory of gases -- Microscopic significance of entropy -- Ensembles -- Partition function -- Quantum systems -- Independent particles and paramagnetism -- F |