Statistical thermodynamics for pure and applied sciences : statistical thermodynamics / Frederick Richard Wayne McCourt.
McCourt, Frederick R. W.
2021
QC311.5
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Title
Statistical thermodynamics for pure and applied sciences : statistical thermodynamics / Frederick Richard Wayne McCourt.
Author
McCourt, Frederick R. W.
ISBN
9783030520069 (electronic bk.)
3030520064 (electronic bk.)
3030520056
9783030520052
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52006-9
Publication Details
Cham : Springer, 2021.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-52006-9 doi
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QC311.5
Dewey Decimal Classification
530.13/2
Summary
This textbook concerns thermal properties of bulk matter and is aimed at advanced undergraduate or first-year graduate students in a range of programs in science or engineering. It provides an intermediate level presentation of statistical thermodynamics for students in the physical sciences (chemistry, nanosciences, physics) or related areas of applied science/engineering (chemical engineering, materials science, nanotechnology engineering), as they are areas in which statistical mechanical concepts play important roles. The book enables students to utilize microscopic concepts to achieve a better understanding of macroscopic phenomena and to be able to apply these concepts to the types of sub-macroscopic systems encountered in areas of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Employs microscopic description of gases of classical and quantum particles to obtain equations of state for classical and ideal gases Reviews relevant basic thermodynamics and establishes their connections to statistical mechanics Develops classical (Boltzmann) and quantum (Fermi-Dirac, Bose-Einstein) statistical mechanics Treats four types of ensemble and derives expressions for typical thermodynamic functions in terms of corresponding partition functions Presents detailed discussions of the roles played by internal molecular states and electronic and nuclear spin states Reinforces concepts using applications, worked examples, and end-of-chapter problems.
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Chapter 1. Basic background material
Chapter 2. Macroscopic thermodynamics
Chapter 3. Ensembles: systems of particles
Chapter 4. Mean values and thermodynamics
Chapter 5. Atomic systems
Chapter 6. Molecular systems
Chapter 7. Classical statistical mechanics
Chapter 8. Electric and magnetic phenomena
Chapter 9. Chemical equilibrium
Chapter 10. Quantum statistics.

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