An introduction to thermal physics /

Schroeder, Daniel V.

An introduction to thermal physics / Daniel V. Schroeder. - San Francisco, CA : Addison Wesley, c 2000. - x, 422 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-405) and index.

Energy in thermal physics -- The second law -- Interactions and implications -- Engines and refrigerators -- Free energy and chemical thermodynamics -- Boltzmann statistics -- Quantum statistics -- Systems of interacting particles -- Appendix a. Elements of quantum mechanics -- Appendix B. Mathematical results.

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Thermodynamics.
Statistical mechanics.

QC311.15 / .S32 2000