Foreword Preface Ⅰ Thermodynamics 1 Equilibrium and State Quantities Introduction Systems, phases and state quantities Equilibrium and temperature-the zeroth law of thermodynamics Kinetic theory of the ideal gas Pressure, work and chemical potential Heat and heat cqpacity The equation of state for a real gas Specific heat Changes of state-reversible and irreversible processes Exact and inexact differentials, line integrals 2 The Laws of Thermodynamics The first law Carnot's process and entropy Entropy and the second law Insertion: Microscopic interpretation of entropy and of the second law Global and local equilibrium Thermodynamic engines Euler's equation and the Gibbs-Duhem relation 3 Phase Transitions and Chemical Reactions Gibbs' Phase Rule Phase equilibrium and the Maxwell construction The law of mass action Application of the thermodynamics 4 Thermodynamic Potenticals The principle of maximum entropy Entropy and energy as thermodynamic potentials The Legendre transformation The free enthalpy The Enthalpy The grand potential The transformation of all variables The maxwell relations Jacobi transformations Thermodynamic stability Ⅱ Statistical Mechanics 5 Number of Microstates Ω and Entropy S 6 Ensemble Theory and Microcanonical Ensemble 7 THe Canonical Ensemble 8 Applications of Boltzmann Statistics 9 The Macrocanonical Ensemble Ⅲ Quantum Statistics 10 Density Operators 11 The Symmetry Character of Many-Particle Wavefunctions 12 Grand Canonical Description of Ideal Quantum Systems 13 The Ideal Bose Gas 14 Ideal Fermi Gas 15 Applications of Relativistic Bose and Fermi Gases Ⅳ Real Gases and Phase Transtions 16 Real Gases 17 Classification of Phase Transitions 18 The Models of lsing and Heisenberg Index
