Statistical and Thermal Physics: Fundamentals and Applications (Hardcover)

Preface, 1 Introduction, 2 Temperature, Work, and Heat, 3 Macrostates and Microstates, 4 Entropy, Free Energy, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics, 5 The Canonical Distribution: The Boltzmann Factor and the Partition Function, 6 Continuous Energy Levels, the Density of States, and Equipartition, 7 Systems with a Variable Number of Particles: The Chemical Potential, 8 Perfect Gases, 9 Ideal Gases and Solutions, 10 Black Body Radiation and the Photon Gas, 11 The Perfect Bose Gas: Bose-Einstein Condensation, 12 The Perfect Fermi Gas, 13 Electrons and Holes in Semiconductors, 14 Phase Transitions, 15 Heat Engines, 16 Transport Processes, A Expansion in Series, B Review of Quantized States, C Proof That the Zero’th Law Implies the Existence of Temperature, D Some Results in Probability Theory, E Differentials, Partial Derivatives, and the Maxwell Relations, F Standing Wave Solutions of the Wave Equation, G The Equipartition Theorem, H Some Results in the Kinetic Theory of Gases, Glossary, List of Symbols, Physical Constants, Bibliography, Index