Thermodynamics and an Introduction to Thermostatistics

ISBN-13: 9780471862567 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 512 str.

Herbert B. Callen; Herbert B. Callen

Opis

Twenty-five years ago, the first edition of this text established a new conceptual structure for thermodynamics. Thermodynamics and an Introduction to Thermostatistics, 2nd Edition maintains this now classical structure. It includes a simple descriptive account of recent advances in critical phenomena and a fully compatible but logically distinct introduction to statistical mechanics, and concludes with an interpretive chapter on the conceptual roots of thermostatistics.

Spis treści

GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF CLASSICAL THERMODYNAMICS.

The Problem and the Postulates.

The Conditions of Equilibrium.

Some Formal Relationships, and Sample Systems.

Reversible Processes and the Maximum Work Theorem.

Alternative Formulations and Legendre Transformations.

The Extremum 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.

Statistical Mechanics in the Entropy Representation: The Microanonical 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.

FOUNDATIONS.

Postlude: Symmetry and the Conceptual Foundations of Thermostatistics.

Appendices.

General References.

Index.