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  title info:
    non sort: An
    title: Introduction to Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics
  name:
    name part: Olla, Piero.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VII, 185 p. 22 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This textbook offers an advanced undergraduate or initial graduate level introduction to topics such as kinetic theory, equilibrium statistical mechanics, and the theory of fluctuations from a modern perspective. The aim is to provide the reader with the necessary tools of probability theory and thermodynamics (especially the thermodynamic potentials) to enable subsequent study at advanced graduate level. At the same time, the book offers a bird's eye view on arguments that are often disregarded in the main curriculum courses. Further features include a focus on the interdisciplinary nature of the subject and in-depth discussion of alternative interpretations of the concept of entropy. While some familiarity with basic concepts of thermodynamics and probability theory is assumed, this does not extend beyond what is commonly obtained in basic undergraduate curriculum courses.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Review of probability and statistics -- Kinetic theory -- Thermodynamics -- Introduction to equilibrium statistical mechanics -- The theory of fluctuations.
  note: by Piero Olla.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Mechanics
  subject:
    topic: Thermodynamics
  subject:
    topic: Statistical physics
  subject:
    topic: Dynamical systems
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity
  subject:
    topic: Thermodynamics
  subject:
    topic: Mechanics
  classification: QC174.7-175.36
  classification: 621
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      title: Springer eBooks
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      title: UNITEXT for Physics
  identifier: 9783319061887
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06188-7
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    record change date: 20151030031327.0
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