
| Ralph Baierlein Born in 1936 and educated at Harvard and Princeton Universities, Ralph Baierlein is currently Charlotte Ayres Professor of Physics at Wesleyan University, Middletown,Connecticut. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and in 1998 received a Distinguished Service Citation from the American Association of Physics Teachers. He is also author of other umversity textbooks including Atoms and Information Theory,Newtonian Dynami.. << 查看详细 |
| preface background 1.1 heating and temperature 1.2 some dilute gas relationships 1.3 the first law of thermodynamics 1.4 heat capacity 1.5 an adiabatic process 1.6 the meaning of words 1.7 essentials further reading problems 2 the second law of thermodynamics 2.1 multiplicity 2.2 the second law of thermodynamics 2.3 the power of the second law 2.4 connecting multiplicity and energy transfer by heating 2.5 some examples 2.6 generalization 2.7 entropy and disorder 2.8 essentials . further reading problems 3 entropy and efficiency 3.1 the most important thermodynamic cycle: the carnot cycle 3.2 maximum efficiency 3.3 a practical consequence 3.4 rapid change 3.5 the simplified otto cycle 3.6 more about reversibility 3.7 essentials further reading problems 4 entropy in quantum theory 4.1 the density of states 4.2 the quantum version of multiplicity 4.3 a general definition of temperature 4.4 essentials problems 5 the canonical probability distribution 5.1 probabilities 5.2 probabilities when the temperature is fixed 5.3 an example: spin paramagnetism 5.4 the partition function technique 5.5 the energy range 6e 5.6 the ideal gas, treated semi-classically 5.7 theoretical threads 5.8 essentials further reading problems 6 photons and phonons 7 the chemical potential 8 the quantum ideal gas 9 fermions and bosons at low temperature 10 the free energies 11 chemical equilibrium 12 phase equilibrium 13 the classical limit 14 approaching zero 15 transport processes 16 critical pheneomena |
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