内容提要 Several aims guided me while I wrote. My first goal was to build from the familiar to the abstract and still get to entropy, conceived microscopically, in the second chapter. I sought to keep the book crisp and lean: derivations were to be succinct and simple; topics were to be those essential for physics and astronomy. From the professor's perspective, a semester is a short time, and few undergraduate curricula can devote more than a semester to thermal physics. 目录 PrefaceBackground 1.1 Heating and temperature 1.2 Some dilute gas relationships 1.3 The First Law of Thermodynamics 1.4 Heat capacity 1.5 An adiabatic process 1.6 The meaning of words 1.7 Essentials Further reading Problems2 The Second Law of Thermodynamics 2.1 Multiplicity 2.2 The Second Law of Thermodynamics 2.3 The power of the Second Law 2.4 Connecting multiplicity and energy transfer by heating 2.5 Some examples 2.6 Generalization 2.7 Entropy and disorder 2.8 Essentials Further reading Problems3 Entropy and Efficiency 3.1 The most important thermodynamic cycle: the Carnot cycle 3.2 Maximum efficiency 3.3 A practical consequence 3.4 Rapid change 3.5 The simplified Otto cycle 3.6 More about reversibility 3.7 Essentials Further reading Problems4 Entropy in Quantum Theory 4.1 The density of states 4.2 The quantum version of multiplicity 4.3 A general definition of temperature 4.4 Essentials Problems5 The Canonical Probability Distribution 5.1 Probabilities 5.2 Probabilities when the temperature is fixed 5.3 An example: spin paramagnetism 5.4 The partition function technique 5.5 The energy range 6E 5.6 The ideal gas, treated semi-classically 5.7 Theoretical threads 5.8 Essentials Further readingProblems6 Photons and Phonons7 The Chemical Potential8 The Quantum Ideal Gas9 Fermions and Bosons at Low Temperature10 The Free Energies11 Chemical Equilibrium12 Phase Equilibrium13 The Classical Limit14 Approaching Zero15 Transport Processes16 Critical Pheneomena 作者介绍
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