2nd Edition
Sturge's Statistical and Thermal Physics, Second Edition
SECTION I Preamble 1 Introduction 2 Temperature, Work, and Heat 3 Heat Engines SECTION II The Fundamentals of Modern Thermodynamics 4 Macrostates and Microstates 5 Entropy, Free Energy, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics 6 The Canonical Distribution: The Boltzmann Factor and the Partition Function 7 Continuous Energy Levels, the Density of States, and Equipartition 8 Systems with a Variable Number of Particles: The Chemical Potential SECTION III The Thermodynamics of Gases 9 Perfect Gases 10 Ideal Gases and Solutions 11 Black Body Radiation and the Photon Gas 12 The Perfect Bose Gas: Bose-Einstein Condensation 13 The Perfect Fermi Gas SECTION IV Modern Thermostatistical Applications 14 Electrons and Holes in Semiconductors 15 Phase Transitions 16 Transport Processes 17 Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics 18 Biological Systems
Biography
Jeffrey Olafsen is an Associate Professor of Physics at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. His research focuses on experimental non-equilibrium and nonlinear dynamics, including granular physics and biomechanics. The research in his laboratory has been primarily pursued with undergraduate researchers who are co-authors on his journal articles. The soft matter systems about which he publishes often draw on analogies to traditional thermodynamical systems.
