Solved Problems in Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics

• Main Authors: Skačej, Gregor (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Ziherl, Primož (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Statistical physics.; Thermodynamics.; Amorphous substances.; Complex fluids.; Dynamical systems.; Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems.; Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics.; Complex Systems.

This book contains a modern selection of about 230 solved problems and examples arranged in a didactic way for hands-on experience with course work in a standard advanced undergraduate/first-year graduate class in thermodynamics and statistical physics. The principles of thermodynamics and equilibri...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Thermodynamics
• Equation of state
• The first law
• The second law
• Thermodynamic potentials
• Phase transitions
• Mixtures
• Transport phenomena
• Part II: Statistical physics
• Classical canonical ensemble
• Equation of state
• Entropy
• Quantum canonical ensemble
• Grand canonical ensemble
• Kinetic theory of gases
• A: Steam tables
• B: Metropolis algorithm.