Statistical thermodynamics : understanding the properties of macroscopic systems /: understanding the properties of macroscopic systems. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Lukong Cornelius Fai and Gary Matthew Wysin.
• Authors: Fai, Lukong Cornelius; Wysin, Gary Matthew
• Contents: Basic Principles of Statistical Physics; Microscopic and Macroscopic Description of States; Basic Postulates; Gibbs Ergodic Assumption; Gibbsian Ensembles; Experimental Basis of Statistical Mechanics; Definition of Expectation Values; Ergodic Principle and Expectation Values; Properties of Distribution Function; Relative Fluctuation of an Additive Macroscopic Parameter; Liouville Theorem; Gibbs Microcanonical Ensemble; Microcanonical Distribution in Quantum Mechanics; Density Matrix; Density Matrix in Energy Representation; Entropy; ; Thermodynamic Functions ; Temperature; Adiabatic Processes; Pressure; Thermodynamic Identity; Laws of Thermodynamics; Thermodynamic Potentials, Maxwell Relations; Heat Capacity and Equation of State; Jacobian Method; Joule–Thomson Process; Maximum Work; Condition for Equilibrium and Stability in an Isolated System; Thermodynamic Inequalities; Third Law of Thermodynamics; Dependence of Thermodynamic Functions on Number of Particles; Equilibrium in an External Force Field; ; Canonical Distribution ; Gibbs Canonical Distribution; Basic Formulas of Statistical Physics; Maxwell Distribution; Experimental Basis of Statistical Mechanics; Grand Canonical Distribution; Extremum of Canonical Distribution Function; ; Ideal Gases ; Occupation Number; Boltzmann Distribution; Entropy of a Nonequilibrium Boltzmann Gas; Applications of Statistical Thermodynamics to Some Systems; Free Energy of the Ideal Boltzmann Gas; Equipartition Theorem; Monatomic Gas; Vibrations of Diatomic Molecules; Rotation of Diatomic Molecules; Nuclear Spin Effects; Electronic Angular Momentum Effect; Experiment and Statistical Ideas; ; Quantum Statistics of Ideal Gases ; Maxwell–Boltzmann, Bose–Einstein, and Fermi–Dirac Statistics; Generalized Thermodynamic Potential for a Quantum Ideal Gas; Fermi–Dirac and Bose–Einstein Distributions; Entropy of Nonequilibrium Fermi and Bose Gases; Thermodynamic Functions for Quantum Gases; Properties of Weakly Degenerate Quantum Gas; Degenerate Electronic Gas at Temperature Different from Zero; Experimental Basis of Statistical Mechanics; Application of Statistics to an Intrinsic Semiconductor; Application of Statistics to Extrinsic Semiconductor; Degenerate Bose Gas; Equilibrium or Black Body Radiation; Application of Statistical Thermodynamics to Electromagnetic Eigenmodes; ; The Electron Gas in a Magnetic Field ; Evaluation of Diamagnetism of a Free Electron Gas; Density Matrix for a Free Electron Gas; Evaluation of Free Energy; Application to a Degenerate Gas; Evaluation of Contour Integrals; Diamagnetism of a Free Electron Gas; Oscillatory Effect; ; Magnetic and Dielectric Materials ; Thermodynamics of Magnetic Materials in a Magnetic Field; Thermodynamics of Dielectric Materials in an Electric Field; Magnetic Effects in Materials; Adiabatic Cooling by Demagnetization; ; Lattice Dynamics ; Periodic Functions of a Reciprocal Lattice; Reciprocal Lattice; Vibrational Modes of a Monatomic Lattice; Vibrational Modes of a Diatomic Linear Chain; Vibrational Modes in a Three-Dimensional Crystal; Normal Vibration of a Three-Dimensional Crystal; ; Condensed Bodies ; Application of Statistical Thermodynamics to Phonons; Free Energy of Condensed Bodies in the Harmonic Approximation; Condensed Bodies at Low Temperatures; Condensed Bodies at High Temperatures; Debye Temperature Approximation; Volume Coefficient of Expansion; The Experimental Basis of Statistical Mechanics; ; Applications of Statistical Thermodynamics ; Multiphase Systems; Critical Point; ; Macroscopic Quantum Effects: Superfluid Liquid Helium ; Nature of the Lambda Transition; Properties of Liquid Helium; Landau Theory of Liquid He II; Superfluidity of Liquid Helium; ; Nonideal Classical Gases ; Pair Interactions Approximation; Van Der Waals Equation; Completely Ionized Gas; ; Functional Integration in Statistical Physics ; Feynman Path Integrals; Least Action Principle; Representation of Transition Amplitude through Functional Integration; Transition Amplitudes Using Stationary Phase Method; Representation of Matrix Element of Physical Operator through Functional Integral; Property of Path Integral Due to Events Occurring in Succession; Eigenvectors; Transition Amplitude for Time-Independent Hamiltonian; Eigenvectors and Energy Spectrum; Schrödinger Equation; Green Function for Schrödinger Equation; Functional Integration in Quantum Statistical Mechanics; Statistical Physics in Representation of Path Integrals; Partition Function of Forced Harmonic Oscillator; Feynman Variational Method; Feynman Polaron Energy; ; References; ; Index
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 536.7015195; Statistical thermodynamics
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781466510685; 1466510684
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