Ebook: Thermodynamics, Gibbs Method and Statistical Physics of Electron Gases: Gibbs Method and Statistical Physics of Electron Gases
- Genre: Physics // Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
- Tags: Thermodynamics, Mathematical Methods in Physics, Quantum Physics, Statistical Physics Dynamical Systems and Complexity
- Series: Springer Series on Atomic Optical and Plasma Physics 57
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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This book deals with theoretical thermodynamics and the statistical physics of electron and particle gases. While treating the laws of thermodynamics from both classical and quantum theoretical viewpoints, it posits that the basis of the statistical theory of macroscopic properties of a system is the microcanonical distribution of isolated systems, from which all canonical distributions stem. To calculate the free energy, the Gibbs method is applied to ideal and non-ideal gases, and also to a crystalline solid. Considerable attention is paid to the Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein quantum statistics and its application to different quantum gases, and electron gas in both metals and semiconductors is considered in a nonequilibrium state. A separate chapter treats the statistical theory of thermodynamic properties of an electron gas in a quantizing magnetic field.
The book of the above title is very well elaborated and contains the essential concepts of Physics both for engineers ands physicist. The statistical principles set up in this book, helps the students (grade or undergrade) as well as Engineers and Scientists understand beter the transition between classical and modern physics.