Perspectives on statistical thermodynamics / Yoshitsugu Oono, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oono, Yoshitsugu, 1948- author.

Series:

Cambridge books online.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Statistical thermodynamics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 513 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

This original text develops a deep, conceptual understanding of thermal physics, highlighting the important links between thermodynamics and statistical physics, and examining how thermal physics fits within physics as a whole, from an empirical perspective. The first part of the book is devoted to elementary, mesoscopic topics such as Brownian motion, which leads to intuitive uses of large deviation theory, one of the pillars of modern probability theory. The book then introduces the key concepts behind statistical thermodynamics, and the final part describes more advanced and applied topics from thermal physics such as phase transitions and critical phenomena. This important subject is presented from a fresh perspective and in a highly pedagogical manner, with numerous worked examples and relevant cultural side notes throughout, making it ideal as either a textbook for advanced thermal physics courses or for self-study by undergraduate and graduate students in physics and engineering.

Contents:

Atomic picture of gases

Introduction to probability

Law of large numbers

Maxwell's distribution

Delta function and density distribution functions

Mean free path and diffusion

Introduction to transport phenomena

Brownian motion

Langevin equation and large deviation

Basic thermodynamics

Macrosystems in equilibrium

Thermodynamic description

Thermodynamics: general consequences

Entropy through examples

Free energy and convex analysis

Introduction to statistical mechanics

Statisticalmechanics of isothermal systems

Canonical density operator

Classical canonical ensemble

Information and entropy

Information and thermodynamics

Oscillators at low temperatures

How tomanipulate partial derivatives

Thermodynamic stability

Fluctuation and response

Chemical potential

Grand canonical ensemble

Ideal quantumsystems at low temperatures

Photons and internalmotions

Phases and phase transitions

Phase transition in d-space

Critical phenomena and renormalization

Mean field and transfer matrix

Symmetry breaking

First order phase transition.

Notes:

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781316650394

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