Thermal PhysicsCONGRATULATIONS TO HERBERT KROEMER, 2000 NOBEL LAUREATE FOR PHYSICS For upper-division courses in thermodynamics or statistical mechanics, Kittel and Kroemer offers a modern approach to thermal physics that is based on the idea that all physical systems can be described in terms of their discrete quantum states, rather than drawing on 19th-century classical mechanics concepts. |
Contents
Entropy and Temperature | 28 |
Chapter 5 | 34 |
Entropy Increase on Heat Flow | 44 |
Chapter 6 | 138 |
Chapter 7 | 163 |
Chapter 8 | 225 |
Chapter 9 | 246 |
Chapter 10 | 275 |
Chapter 13 | 353 |
Chapter 14 | 380 |
Chapter 15 | 396 |
Appendix | 423 |
Temperature Scales | 445 |
Paramagnetism | 446 |
Appendix D | 459 |
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