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  3. An Introduction to Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
  • Cited by 47
  • 2nd edition
  • Keith Stowe, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
June 2012
Print publication year:
2007
Online ISBN:
9780511801570
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511801570
Subjects:
Physics and Astronomy, Statistical Physics
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Book description

This introductory textbook for standard undergraduate courses in thermodynamics has been completely rewritten to explore a greater number of topics, more clearly and concisely. Starting with an overview of important quantum behaviours, the book teaches students how to calculate probabilities in order to provide a firm foundation for later chapters. It introduces the ideas of classical thermodynamics and explores them both in general and as they are applied to specific processes and interactions. The remainder of the book deals with statistical mechanics. Each topic ends with a boxed summary of ideas and results, and every chapter contains numerous homework problems, covering a broad range of difficulties. Answers are given to odd-numbered problems, and solutions to even-numbered problems are available to instructors at www.cambridge.org/9781107694927.

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'… a very good text for undergraduate students … very readable.'

Source: The Observatory

‘The text is well written, clear and derivations are easy to follow. Summary sections in each chapter are helpful for reviewing the material just read.’

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References
Further reading
Introductory, statistical approach
Hill, Terell, An Introduction to Statistical Thermodynamics, Dover, 1986.
Kittel, Charles, Elementary Statistical Physics, Krieger Publishing Co., 1988.
Mandl, Franz, Statistical Physics, second edition, Wiley, 1988.
Reif, Frederick, Statistical Physics: Berkley Physics Course – Volume 5, McGraw-Hill, 1967.
Schroeder, Daniel, An Introduction to Thermal Physics, Addison Wesley, 2000.
Introductory, postulatory approach
Abbot, Michael and Ness, Hendrick, Schaum's Outline of Thermodynamics with Applications, McGraw-Hill, 1989.
Baierlein, Ralph, Thermal Physics, Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Callen, Herbert, Thermodynamics and an Introduction to Thermostatistics, second edition, Wiley, 1985.
Carter, Ashley, Classical and Statistical Thermodynamics, Prentice Hall, 2001.
Fermi, Enrico, Thermodynamics, Dover, 1937.
Finn, C. B. P., Thermal Physics, second edition, Routledge and Kegan Paul Books, 1986.
Kittel, Charles and Kroemer, Herbert, Thermal Physics, second edition, W. H. Freeman, 1980.
Ness, H. C., Understanding Thermodynamics, Dover, 1983.
More advanced
Chandler, David, Introduction to Modern Statistical Mechanics, Oxford University Press, 1987.
Huang, Kerson, Introduction to Statistical Physics, Taylor and Francis, 2001.
Landau, L. D. and Lifshitz, E. M., Statistical Physics, third edition, Pergamon Press, 1980.
Moran, Michael and Shapiro, Howard, Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics, Wiley, 2000.
Pathria, R. K., Statistical Mechanics, second edition, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1996.
Reichl, L. E., A Modern Course in Statistical Physics, second edition, Wiley, 1998 (very advanced).
Reif, Frederick, Fundamentals of Statistical and Thermal Physics, McGraw Hill, 1965.
Sonntag, Richard, Borgnakke, Claus, and Wylen, Gordon, Fundamentals of Thermodynamics, Wiley, 1997.

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