Statistical Thermodynamics: Fundamentals and Applications by Normand M. Laurendeau

By Normand M. Laurendeau

This 2006 textbook discusses the basics and functions of statistical thermodynamics for starting graduate scholars within the actual and engineering sciences. development at the prototypical Maxwell–Boltzmann technique and keeping a step by step improvement of the topic, this booklet assumes the reader has no past publicity to statistical data, quantum mechanics or spectroscopy. The booklet starts with the necessities of statistical thermodynamics, pauses to recuperate wanted wisdom from quantum mechanics and spectroscopy, after which strikes directly to functions related to perfect gases, the cast nation and radiation. a whole creation to kinetic idea is equipped, together with its functions to move phenomena and chemical kinetics. A spotlight of the textbook is its dialogue of recent functions, equivalent to laser-based diagnostics. The ebook concludes with a radical presentation of the ensemble technique, that includes its use for genuine gases. a number of examples and caused homework difficulties increase the text.

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