Ebook: Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978. — XIII + 461 p. — ISBN 0-19-851142-6.Innovative and wide-ranging, this treatment combines precise mathematic style with strong physical intuition. Written by a well-known physicist for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, the book's broad spectrum of applications includes negative temperatures and heat capacities, general and special relativistic effects, black hole thermodynamics, gravitational collapse, energy conversion problems, and efficiencies including simple heat pump theory.The basic ideas and mathematical formulation of thermodynamics are presented in a modern, clear way with the Carathéodory method, which is employed fully, but in simple terms and without advanced mathematics. Statistical mechanics are based on ideas from information theory, and the simpler ideal systems are covered in close connection with the thermodynamic treatment. Mathematical steps are displayed in detail, and abundant problems include worked solutions.Thermodynamics
Nature of and scope of thermodynamics
Basic concepts; the laws of thermodynamics
Thermodynamics of simple systems using the first law only
Exact and inexact differentials
The second law
Absolute and empirical temperature scales
Variable particle numbers
The mass action law and the equilibrium constants
Statistical mechanics
Two basic results in statistical mechanics
Mean occupation numbers and negative temperatures
The continuous spectrum approximation
The density of states functions
Bosons: black-body radiation
Heat capacities of oscillators and solids
Fermi systems
Fluctuations
Simple transport properties
Outlook
Appendices
Information theory
The algebra of lagrangian multipliers
Solid angles
Special relativistic thermodynamics: some additional topics
Solutions of problems
Bibliographical notes
Author index
Subject indexТермодинамика. Аннотированный список литературы