Finn's Thermal Physics

ISBN-13: 9781032289823 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 440 str.

UK) Finn C.B.P. (Sussex University

Opis

This fully updated and expanded new edition continues to provide the most readable, concise, and easy-to-follow introduction to thermal physics.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Temperature. Chapter 2: Reversible Processes and Work. Chapter 3: The First Law of Thermodynamics. Chapter 4: The Second Law of Thermodynamics. Chapter 5: Entropy. Chapter 6: Statistical Mechanics. Chapter 7: The Thermodynamic Potentials and the Maxwell Relations. Chapter 8: General Thermodynamic Relations. Chapter 9: Magnetic Systems. Chapter 10: Phase Changes. Chapter 11: Open Systems and Chemical Potential. Chapter 12: The Third Law of Thermodynamics. Chapter 13: Quantum Statistics. Appendix A: Values of Physical Constants and Conversion Factors. Appendix B: Some Mathematical Relations Used in Thermodynamics. Appendix C: The Work Required to Magnetize a Magnetic Material and to Polarize a Dielectric. Appendix D: Answers to Selected Problems. Index.   

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Andrew Rex is professor of physics at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. He received his B.A. in physics from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1977 and his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Virginia in 1982. Andrew is devoted to physics education and has been an active participant in the American Association of Physics Teachers, the Society of Physics Students, Sigma Pi Sigma, and Sigma Xi. In 2004 he was recognized for his teaching with the President’s Award for Teaching Excellence. Andrew has co-authored several widely used textbooks: Modern Physics for Scientists and Engineers (1993, 2000, 2006, 2013), Integrated Physics and Calculus (2000), and Essential College Physics (2010), and the popular science book Commonly Asked Questions in Physics (2014), also published by Taylor & Francis / CRC Press.