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Thermal physics / Charles Kittel, Herbert Kroemer.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kittel, Charles.
- Kroemer, Herbert, 1928-2024, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Statistical thermodynamics.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 473 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : W. H. Freeman, [1980]
- Summary:
- Congratulations to Herbert Kroemer, 2000 Nobel Laureate for Physics For upper-division courses in thermodynamics or statistical mechanics, Kittel and Kroemer offers a modern approach to thermal physics that is based on the idea that all physical systems can be described in terms of their discrete quantum states, rather than drawing on 19th-century classical mechanics concepts.
- Contents:
- 1 States of a Model System
- 2 Entropy and Temperature
- 3 Boltzmann Distribution and Helmholtz Free Energy
- 4 Thermal Radiation and Planck Distribution
- 5 Chemical Potential and Gibbs Distribution
- 6 Ideal Gas
- 7 Fermi and Bose Gases
- 8 Heat and Work
- 9 Gibbs Free Energy and Chemical Reactions
- 10 Phase Transformations
- 11 Binary Mixtures
- 12 Cryogenics
- 13 Semiconductor Statistics
- 14 Kinetic Theory
- 15 Propagation.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages xv-xvii.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0716710889
- OCLC:
- 5171399
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