Thermal Physics

CONGRATULATIONS TO HERBERT KROEMER, 2000 NOBEL LAUREATE FOR PHYSICS For upper-division courses in thermodynamics or statistical mechanics, Kittel and Kroemer offers a modern approach to thermal physics that is based on the idea that all physical systems can be described in terms of their discrete quantum states, rather than drawing on 19th-century classical mechanics concepts.

Guide to Fundamental Definitions

xiii

(2)

General References

xv

Introduction

1

(4)

Chapter 1 States of a Model System

5

(22)

Chapter 2 Entropy and Temperature

27

(28)

Chapter 3 Boltzmann Distribution and Helmholtz Free Energy

55

(32)

Chapter 4 Thermal Radiation and Planck Distribution

87

(30)

Chapter 5 Chemical Potential and Gibbs Distribution

117

(34)

Chapter 6 Ideal Gas

151

(30)

Chapter 7 Fermi and Bose Gases

181

(44)

Chapter 8 Heat and Work

225

(36)

Chapter 9 Gibbs Free Energy and Chemical Reactions

261

(14)

Chapter 10 Phase Transformations

275

(34)

Chapter 11 Binary Mixtures

309

(24)

Chapter 12 Cryogenics

333

(20)

Chapter 13 Semiconductor Statistics

353

(36)

Chapter 14 Kinetic Theory

389

(34)

Chapter 15 Propagation

423

(16)

Appendix A Some Integrals Containing Exponentials

439

(6)

Appendix B Temperature Scales

445

(8)

Appendix C Poisson Distribution

453

(6)

Appendix D Pressure

459

(1)

Appendix E Negative Temperature

460

(5)

Index

465

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