EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Topics Thermodynamics , Statistical physics , statistical mechanics Collection opensource Language English. This text provides a balanced, well-organized treatment of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, making thermal physics interesting and accessible to anyone who has completed a year of calculus-based introductory physics.
Part I introduces essential concepts of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics from a unified view, applying concepts in a select number of illustrative examples.
Throughout, the emphasis is on real-world applications. There are no reviews yet. All search results are from google search results. Please respect the publisher and the author for their creations if their books are copyrighted. Please contact us or the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.
Be sure to respect the publishers and the authors office file copyright. New publisher! I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the people at Addison Wesley Longman AWL , especially my editor Sami Iwata, who helped make the book such a success during its early years. However, times have changed. AWL is now part of Pearson, and Pearson, like other major commercial textbook publishers, is gradually becoming more of a software company, focusing on online educational materials for mass-market courses.
As a nonprofit department of the University of Oxford, OUP is far more stable than a commercial publisher and has pledged to maintain high quality at a fair price. Except for about three dozen new page corrections, the OUP reissue will be identical in content to the Pearson version. Part I introduces the fundamental principles of thermal physics the so-called first and second laws in a unified way, going back and forth between the microscopic statistical and macroscopic thermodynamic viewpoints.
This portion of the book also applies these principles to a few simple thermodynamic systems, chosen for their illustrative character. Parts II and III then develop more sophisticated techniques to treat further applications of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, respectively. The thrill of thermal physics comes from using it to understand the world we live in. Indeed, thermal physics has so many applications that no single author can possibly be an expert on all of them. But in my mind, a book like this one cannot have too many applications.
Undergraduate physics students can and do go on to specialize in all of the sub jects just named, so I consider it my duty to make you aware of some of the possibilities.
Even if you choose a career entirely outside of the sciences, an understanding of thermal physics will enrich the experiences of every day of your life.
One of my goals in writing this book was to keep it short enough for a one-semester course. I have failed. Too many topics have made their way into the text, and it is now too long even for a very fast-paced semester. The book is still intended primarily for a one-semester course, however. Many other portions of Parts II and III make equally good candidates for omission, depending on the emphasis of the course.
To encourage you to learn actively while using this book, the publisher has provided ample margins for your notes, questions, and objections. I urge you to read with a pencil not a highlighter. Even more important are the problems. All physics textbook authors tell their readers to work the problems, and I hereby do the same. The problems come in all types: thought questions, short numerical calculations, order-of-magnitude estimates, derivations, extensions of the theory, new applications, and extended pro jects.
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