General and Statistical Thermodynamics

• Main Author: Tahir-Kheli, Raza (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012.
• Series: Graduate Texts in Physics,
• Subjects: Physics.; Thermodynamics.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Heat engineering.; Heat transfer.; Mass transfer.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.

This textbook explains completely the general and statistical thermodynamics. It begins with an introductory statistical mechanics course, deriving all the important formulae meticulously and explicitly, without mathematical short cuts. The main part of the book deals with the careful discussion of...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction and Zeroth Law
• Perfect Gas
• The First Law
• The Second Law
• First and Second Laws Combined
• Van der Waals Theory: Imperfect Gases
• Internal Energy and Enthalpy
• Fundamental Equation
• Thermodynamic Potentials
• Statistical Thermodynamics:Third Law.