Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introducing thermodynamics
- 2 A road to thermodynamics
- 3 Work, heat and the First Law
- 4 A mathematical digression
- 5 Thermodynamic potentials
- 6 Knowing the “unknowable”
- 7 The ideal gas
- 8 The two-level system
- 9 Lattice heat capacity
- 10 Elastomers: entropy springs
- 11 Magnetic thermodynamics
- 12 Open systems
- 13 The amazing chemical potential
- 14 Thermodynamics of radiation
- 15 Ideal Fermi gas
- 16 Ideal Bose–Einstein system
- 17 Thermodynamics and the cosmic microwave background
- Appendix A How pure is pure? An inequality
- Appendix B Bias and the thermal Lagrangian
- Appendix C Euler's homogeneous function theorem
- Appendix D Occupation numbers and the partition function
- Appendix E Density of states
- Appendix F A lab experiment in elasticity
- Appendix G Magnetic and electric fields in matter
- Appendix H Maxwell's equations and electromagnetic fields
- Appendix I Fermi–Dirac integrals
- Appendix J Bose–Einstein integrals
- Index
2 - A road to thermodynamics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introducing thermodynamics
- 2 A road to thermodynamics
- 3 Work, heat and the First Law
- 4 A mathematical digression
- 5 Thermodynamic potentials
- 6 Knowing the “unknowable”
- 7 The ideal gas
- 8 The two-level system
- 9 Lattice heat capacity
- 10 Elastomers: entropy springs
- 11 Magnetic thermodynamics
- 12 Open systems
- 13 The amazing chemical potential
- 14 Thermodynamics of radiation
- 15 Ideal Fermi gas
- 16 Ideal Bose–Einstein system
- 17 Thermodynamics and the cosmic microwave background
- Appendix A How pure is pure? An inequality
- Appendix B Bias and the thermal Lagrangian
- Appendix C Euler's homogeneous function theorem
- Appendix D Occupation numbers and the partition function
- Appendix E Density of states
- Appendix F A lab experiment in elasticity
- Appendix G Magnetic and electric fields in matter
- Appendix H Maxwell's equations and electromagnetic fields
- Appendix I Fermi–Dirac integrals
- Appendix J Bose–Einstein integrals
- Index
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- Thermal PhysicsConcepts and Practice, pp. 12 - 24Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011