Livro : Concepts in Thermal Physics

Contents

Part I: Preliminaries

• 1 Introduction 2
• 2 Heat 13
• 3 Probability 18
• 4 Temperature and the Boltzmann factor 30

Part II: Kinetic theory of gases

• 5 The Maxwell--Boltzmann distribution 46
• 6 Pressure 54
• 7 Molecular effusion 62
• 8 The mean free path and collisions 68

Part III: Transport and thermal diffusion

• 9 Transport properties in gases 74
• 10 The thermal diffusion equation 88

Part IV: The first law

• 11 Energy 104
• 12 Isothermal and adiabatic processes 114

Part V: The second law

• 13 Heat engines and the second law 122
• 14 Entropy 136
• 15 Information theory 153

Part VI: Thermodynamics in action

• 16 Thermodynamic potentials 164
• 17 Rods, bubbles and magnets 182
• 18 The third law 193

Part VII: Statistical mechanics

• 19 Equipartition of energy 200
• 20 The partition function 209
• 21 Statistical mechanics of an ideal gas 221
• 22 The chemical potential 232
• 23 Photons 247
• 24 Phonons 263

Part VIII: Beyond the ideal gas

• 25 Relativistic gases 274
• 26 Real gases 280
• 27 Cooling real gases 297
• 28 Phase transitions 305
• 29 Bose--Einstein and Fermi--Dirac distributions 325
• 30 Quantum gases and condensates 337

Part IX: Special topics

• 31 Sound waves 354
• 32 Shock waves 361
• 33 Brownian motion and fluctuations 368
• 34 Non-equilibrium thermodynamics 386
• 35 Stars 398
• 36 Compact objects 413
• 37 Earth's atmosphere 424

Appendices

• A Fundamental constants 433
• B Useful formulae 434
• C Useful mathematics 436
• D The electromagnetic spectrum 451
• E Some thermodynamical definitions 452
• F Thermodynamic expansion formulae 453
• G Reduced mass 454
• H Glossary 455
• I Bibliography 457
• Index 460