Rex A., Finn C. Finn's Thermal Physics 4ed 2024

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Rex A., Finn C. Finn's Thermal Physics 4ed 2024

Textbook in PDF format This fully updated and expanded new edition continues to provide the most readable, concise, and easy-to-follow introduction to thermal physics. While maintaining the style of the original work, the book now covers statistical mechanics and incorporates worked examples systematically throughout the text. It also covers more problems, and incorporates some essential updates, such as discussions on superconductivity, magnetism, Bose-Einstein condensation, and climate change. Anyone who needs to acquire an intuitive understanding of thermodynamics from the first principles will find this third edition indispensable. Features Provides the most concise and accessible introduction to thermodynamics starting from first principles, with many more worked examples and problems. Incorporates statistical mechanics in two brand-new chapters. Systematically incorporates more worked examples after introducing a new concept to show what the results mean numerically. Continues to address the subtleties in a way unmatched by any other text, for topics such as the meaning of thermodynamic functions. Offers a significant update on areas such as superconductivity, magnetism, Bose-Einstein condensation, climate change, and physics of information. Preface to the Fourth Edition. Preface to the Third Edition. Author. Introduction. Temperature. Reversible Processes and Work. The First Law of Thermodynamics. The Second Law of Thermodynamics. Entropy. Statistical Mechanics. The Thermodynamic Potentials and the Maxwell Relations. General Thermodynamic Relations. Magnetic Systems. Phase Changes. Open Systems and Chemical Potential. The Third Law of Thermodynamics. Quantum Statistics. Appendix A: Values of Physical Constants and Conversion Factors. Appendix B: Some Mathematical Relations Used in Thermodynamics. Appendix C: The Work Required to Magnetize a Magnetic Material and to Polarize a Dielectric. Appendix D: Answers to Selected Problems. Index