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  title info:
    title: Statistical physics
    sub title: an entropic approach
  name:
    name part: Ford, Ian
    name part: 1962-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Textbooks.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: "This undergraduate textbook provides students with a statistical mechanical foundation to the classical laws of thermodynamics through a comprehensive treatment of the basics of classical thermodynamics, equilibrium statistical mechanics, irreversible thermodynamics, and statistical mechanics of non-equilibrium phenomena. The concept of entropy is studied starting from the ideal gas law, known to every undergraduate. By considering various thermodynamic processes, it then explores the concept's generality. An accessible style enables undergraduates to easily follow the presentation without much prior knowledge. The focus on entropy distinguishes the book from many other treatments of this subject"--
  abstract: "Focuses from the beginning on entropy as the important quantity and introduces it thoroughly in the context of classical thermodynamics"--
  table of contents: 1. Disorder or uncertainty? -- 2. Classical thermodynamics -- 3. Applications of classical thermodynamics -- 4. Core ideas of statistical thermodynamics -- 5. Statistical thermodynamics of a system of harmonic oscillators -- 6. The Boltzmann factor and the canonical partition function -- 7. The grand canonical ensemble and grand partition function -- 8. Statistical models of entropy -- 9. Statistical thermodynamics of the classical ideal gas -- 10. Quantum gases -- 11. Boson gas -- 12. Fermion gas -- 13. Photon gas -- 14. Statistical thermodynamics of interacting particles -- 15. Thermodynamics away from equilibrium -- 16. The dynamics of probability -- 17. Fluctuation relations -- 18. Final remarks.
  note: Ian Ford.
  note: Includes index.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Statistical thermodynamics
    genre: Textbooks
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Mechanics
    topic: Dynamics
    topic: Thermodynamics
  subject:
    topic: Statistical thermodynamics
  subject:
    topic: Statistical thermodynamics
    topic: Textbooks
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Mechanics
    topic: Dynamics
    topic: Thermodynamics
  subject:
    topic: Statistical thermodynamics
  classification: QC311.5
  classification: 536/.7015195
  classification: SCI065000
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Statistical thermodynamics
    name:
      name part: Ford, Ian, 1962-
    origin info:
      publisher: Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2013
    identifier: (DLC) 2012051177
  identifier: 9781118597491
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  identifier: 9781119975311
  identifier: 9781119975304
  identifier: 2013008600
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118597507
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 130228
    record change date: 20170124070832.4
    record identifier: ocn828776024
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng