Thermo book

Fundamentals of Thermodynamics
and Statistical Mechanics.
Lecture Notes

Second Edition

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I: THERMODYNAMICS

+ 1 Thermodynamic Systems

+ 2 Manifold of Equilibrium States

+ 3 Equations of State

+ 4 Thermodynamic Processes

+ 5 Some Thermodynamic Cycles

+ 6 The Second Law of Thermodynamics

+ 7 Absolute Scales of Temperature

+ 9 Thermodynamic Potentials

+ 10 Maxwell's Relations and other Important Identities

+ 11 Equilibrium and Stability

+ 12 Phase Transitions

PART II: STATISTICAL MECHANICS

+ 13 Microstates and Ensembles

+ 14 The Microcanonical Ensemble

+ 15 The Canonical Ensemble

+ 16 Some Properties of the Canonical Ensemble

+ 17 The Grand Canonical Ensemble

+ 18 Independent Particle Hamiltonians

+ 19 Quantum Ideal Gases

PART III: APPENDICES

A Fundamental Constants

+ B Electrically and Magnetically Polarizable Materials

+ C Eulerian Integrals

D The Gas of Photons

E List of Symbols