Preface
1 Background
1.1 Heating and temperature
1.2 Some dilute gas relationships
1.3 The First Law of Thermodynamics
1.4 Heat capacity
1.5 An adiabatic process
1.6 The meaning of words
1.7 Essentials
Further reading
Problems
2 The Second Law of Thermodynamics
2.1 Multiplicity
2.2 The Second Law of Thermodynamics
2.3 The power of the Second Law
2.4 Connecting multiplicity and energy transfer by heating
2.5 Some examples
2.6 Generalization
2.7 Entropy and disorder
2.8 Essentials
Further reading
Problems
3 Entropy and Efficiency
3.1 The most important thermodynamic cycle: the Carnot cycle
3.2 Maximum efficiency
3.3 A practical consequence
3.4 Rapid change
3.5 The simplified Otto cycle
3.6 More about reversibility
3.7 Essentials
Further reading
Problems
4 Entropy in Quantum Theory
4.1 The density of states
4.2 The quantum version of multiplicity
4.3 A general definition of temperature
4.4 Essentials
Problems
5 The Canonical Probability Distribution
5.1 Probabilities
5.2 Probabilities when the temperature is fixed
5.3 An example: spin paramagnetism
5.4 The partition function technique
5.5 The energy range 6E
5.6 The ideal gas, treated semi-classically
5.7 Theoretical threads
5.8 Essentials
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Problems
6 Photons and Phonons
6.1 The big picture
6.2 Electromagnetic waves and photons
6.3 Radiative flux
6.4 Entropy and evolution （optional）
6.5 Sound waves and phonons
6.6 Essentials
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Problems
7 The Chemical Potential
7.1 Discovering the chemical potential
7.2 Minimum free energy
7.3 A lemma for computing
7.4 Adsorption
7.5 Essentials
Further reading
Problems
8 The Quantum Ideal Gas
8.1 Coping with many particles all at once
8.2 Occupation numbers
8.3 Estimating the occupation numbers
8.4 Limits: classical and semi-classical
8.5 The nearly classical ideal gas （optional）
8.6 Essentials
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Problems
9 Fermions and Bosons at Low Temperature
9.1 Fermions at low temperature
9.2 Pauli paramagnetism （optional）
9.3 White dwarf stars （optional）
9.4 Bose-Einstein condensation: theory
9.5 Bose-Einstein condensation: experiments
9.6 A graphical comparison
9.7 Essentials
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Problems
10 The Free Energies
10.1 Generalities about an open system
10.2 Helmholtz free energy
10.3 More on understanding the chemical potential
10.4 Gibbs free energy
10.5 The minimum property
10.6 Why the phrase "free energy"?
10.7 Miscellany
10.8 Essentials
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Problems
11 Chemical Equilibrium
11.1 The kinetic view
11.2 A consequence of minimum free energy
11.3 The diatomic molecule
11.4 Thermal ionization
11.5 Another facet of chemical equilibrium
11.6 Creation and annihilation
11.7 Essentials
Further reading
Problems
12 Phase Equilibrium
12.1 Phase diagram
12.2 Latent heat
12.3 Conditions for coexistence
12.4 Gibbs-Duhem relation
12.5 Clausius-Clapeyron equation
12.6 Cooling by adiabatic compression （optional）
12.7 Gibbs' phase rule （optional）
12.8 Isotherms
12.9 Van der Waals equation of state
12.10 Essentials
Further reading
Problems
13 The Classical Limit
13.1 Classical phase space
13.2 The Maxwellian gas
13.3 The equipartition theorem
13.4 Heat capacity of diatomic molecules
13.5 Essentials
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Problems
14 Approaching Zero
14.1 Entropy and probability
14.2 Entropy in parama gnetism
14.3 Cooling by adiabatic demagnetization
14.4 The Third Law of Thermodynamics
14.5 Some other consequences of the Third Law
14.6 Negative absolute temperatures
14.7 Temperature recapitulated
14.8 Why heating increases the entropy. Or does it？
14.9 Essentials
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Problems
15 Transport Processes
15.1 Mean free path
15.2 Random walk
15.3 Momentum transport: viscosity
15.4 Pipe flow
15.5 Energy transport: thermal conduction
15.6 Time-dependent thermal conduction
15.7 Thermal evolution: an example
15.8 Refinements
15.9 Essentials
Further reading
Problems
16 Critical Phenomena
16.1 Experiments
16.2 Critical exponents
16.3 Ising model
16.4 Mean field theory
16.5 Renormalization group
16.6 First-order versus continuous
16.7 Universality
16.8 Essentials
Further reading
Problems
Epilogue
Appendix A Physical and Mathematical Data
Appendix B Examples of Estimating Occupation Numbers
Appendix C The Framework of Probability Theory
Appendix D Qualitative Perspectives on the van der Waals Equation
Index
