Thermodynamics and an introduction to thermostatistics /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
J. Wiley,
c1985.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The problem and the postulates
- The conditions of equilibrium
- Some formal relationships, and sample systems
- Reversible processes and the maximun work theorem
- Alternative formulations and legendre transformations
- The extremun principle in the legendre transformed representations
- Maxwell relations
- Stability of thermodynamic systems
- First-order phase transitions
- Critical phenomena
- The nernst postulate
- Summary of principles for general systems
- Properties of materials
- Irreversible thermodynamics
- Statistical mechanics in the entropy representation: the microcanonical formalism
- The canonical formalism; statistical mechanics in Helmholtz representation
- Entropy and disorder; generalized canonical formulations
- Quantum fluids
- Fluctuations
- Variational properties, perturbation expansions, and mean field theory
- Postlude: symmetry and the conceptual foundations of thermostatistics
- Appendix A. Some relations involving partial derivates
- Appendix B. Magnetic systems