Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

by V. Parameswaran Nair

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These are the lecture notes for the course on Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics. This is a course meant for upper level undergraduate students in physics, so that is the level at which most topics are discussed.

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Publisher
City College of New York
Subjects
Physics, Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, as LibreTexts states it. Non-commercial use only.
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Tweens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. 1: Basic Concepts
  7. 1.1: Definitions
  8. 1.2: The Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics
  9. 1.3: Equation of State
  10. 2: The First Law of Thermodynamics
  11. 2.1: The First Law
  12. 2.2: Adiabatic and Isothermal Processes
  13. 2.3: Barometric Formula and the Speed of Sound
  14. 3: The Second Law of Thermodynamics
  15. 3.1: Carnot Cycle
  16. 3.2: The Second Law
  17. 3.3: Consequences of the Second Law
  18. 3.4: Absolute Temperature and Entropy
  19. 3.5: Some Other Thermodynamic Engines
  20. 4: The Third Law of Thermodynamics
  21. 5: Thermodynamic Potentials and Equilibrium
  22. 5.1: Thermodynamic Potentials
  23. 5.2: Thermodynamic Equilibrium
  24. 5.3: Phase Transitions
  25. 6: Thermodynamic Relations and Processes
  26. 6.1: Maxwell Relations
  27. 6.2: Other Relations
  28. 6.3: Joule-Kelvin Expansion
  29. 7: Classical Statistical Mechanics
  30. 7.1: The Binomial Distribution
  31. 7.2: Maxwell-Boltzmann Statistics
  32. 7.3: The Maxwell Distribution For Velocities
  33. 7.4: The Gibbsian Ensembles
  34. 7.5: Equation of State
  35. 7.6: Fluctuations
  36. 7.7: Internal Degrees of Freedom
  37. 7.8: Examples
  38. 8: Quantum Statistical Mechanics
  39. 8.1: Prelude to Quantum Statistical Mechanics
  40. 8.2: Bose-Einstein Distribution
  41. 8.3: Fermi-Dirac Distribution
  42. 8.4: Applications of the Bose-Einstein Distribution
  43. 8.5: Applications of the Fermi-Dirac Distribution
  44. 9: The Carathéodory Principle
  45. 9.1: Mathematical Preliminaries
  46. 9.2: Carathéodory Statement of the Second Law
  47. 10: Entropy and Information
  48. 10.1: Information
  49. 10.2: Maxwell’s Demon
  50. 10.3: Entropy and Gravity
  51. Back Matter
  52. Bibliography
  53. Index
  54. Detailed Licensing