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      • 2nd edition
      • Keith Stowe, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      June 2012
      May 2007
      ISBN:
      9780511801570
      9780521865579
      9781107694927
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511801570
      Dimensions:
      (246 x 189 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.22kg, 572 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (246 x 189 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.2kg, 568 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Physics and Astronomy, Statistical Physics
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    This introductory textbook for standard undergraduate courses in thermodynamics has been completely rewritten to explore a greater number of topics, more clearly and concisely. Starting with an overview of important quantum behaviours, the book teaches students how to calculate probabilities in order to provide a firm foundation for later chapters. It introduces the ideas of classical thermodynamics and explores them both in general and as they are applied to specific processes and interactions. The remainder of the book deals with statistical mechanics. Each topic ends with a boxed summary of ideas and results, and every chapter contains numerous homework problems, covering a broad range of difficulties. Answers are given to odd-numbered problems, and solutions to even-numbered problems are available to instructors at www.cambridge.org/9781107694927.

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    References
    Further reading
    Introductory, statistical approach
    Hill, Terell, An Introduction to Statistical Thermodynamics, Dover, 1986.
    Kittel, Charles, Elementary Statistical Physics, Krieger Publishing Co., 1988.
    Mandl, Franz, Statistical Physics, second edition, Wiley, 1988.
    Reif, Frederick, Statistical Physics: Berkley Physics Course – Volume 5, McGraw-Hill, 1967.
    Schroeder, Daniel, An Introduction to Thermal Physics, Addison Wesley, 2000.
    Introductory, postulatory approach
    Abbot, Michael and Ness, Hendrick, Schaum's Outline of Thermodynamics with Applications, McGraw-Hill, 1989.
    Baierlein, Ralph, Thermal Physics, Cambridge University Press, 1999.
    Callen, Herbert, Thermodynamics and an Introduction to Thermostatistics, second edition, Wiley, 1985.
    Carter, Ashley, Classical and Statistical Thermodynamics, Prentice Hall, 2001.
    Fermi, Enrico, Thermodynamics, Dover, 1937.
    Finn, C. B. P., Thermal Physics, second edition, Routledge and Kegan Paul Books, 1986.
    Kittel, Charles and Kroemer, Herbert, Thermal Physics, second edition, W. H. Freeman, 1980.
    Ness, H. C., Understanding Thermodynamics, Dover, 1983.
    More advanced
    Chandler, David, Introduction to Modern Statistical Mechanics, Oxford University Press, 1987.
    Huang, Kerson, Introduction to Statistical Physics, Taylor and Francis, 2001.
    Landau, L. D. and Lifshitz, E. M., Statistical Physics, third edition, Pergamon Press, 1980.
    Moran, Michael and Shapiro, Howard, Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics, Wiley, 2000.
    Pathria, R. K., Statistical Mechanics, second edition, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1996.
    Reichl, L. E., A Modern Course in Statistical Physics, second edition, Wiley, 1998 (very advanced).
    Reif, Frederick, Fundamentals of Statistical and Thermal Physics, McGraw Hill, 1965.
    Sonntag, Richard, Borgnakke, Claus, and Wylen, Gordon, Fundamentals of Thermodynamics, Wiley, 1997.

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