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Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
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.
- Author
- V. Parameswaran Nair
- Publisher
- City College of New York
- Source
- LibreTexts
- License
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Language
- EN
- Category
- Basic Sciences
Contents· 45 sections
- 01: Basic Concepts
- 1.01: Definitions
- 1.02: The Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics
- 1.03: Equation of State
- 02: The First Law of Thermodynamics
- 2.01: The First Law
- 2.02: Adiabatic and Isothermal Processes
- 2.03: Barometric Formula and the Speed of Sound
- 03: The Second Law of Thermodynamics
- 3.01: Carnot Cycle
- 3.02: The Second Law
- 3.03: Consequences of the Second Law
- 3.04: Absolute Temperature and Entropy
- 3.05: Some Other Thermodynamic Engines
- 04: The Third Law of Thermodynamics
- 05: Thermodynamic Potentials and Equilibrium
- 5.01: Thermodynamic Potentials
- 5.02: Thermodynamic Equilibrium
- 5.03: Phase Transitions
- 06: Thermodynamic Relations and Processes
- 6.01: Maxwell Relations
- 6.02: Other Relations
- 6.03: Joule-Kelvin Expansion
- 07: Classical Statistical Mechanics
- 7.01: The Binomial Distribution
- 7.02: Maxwell-Boltzmann Statistics
- 7.03: The Maxwell Distribution For Velocities
- 7.04: The Gibbsian Ensembles
- 7.05: Equation of State
- 7.06: Fluctuations
- 7.07: Internal Degrees of Freedom
- 7.08: Examples
- 08: Quantum Statistical Mechanics
- 8.01: Prelude to Quantum Statistical Mechanics
- 8.02: Bose-Einstein Distribution
- 8.03: Fermi-Dirac Distribution
- 8.04: Applications of the Bose-Einstein Distribution
- 8.05: Applications of the Fermi-Dirac Distribution
- 09: The Caratheodory Principle
- 9.01: Mathematical Preliminaries
- 9.02: Caratheodory Statement of the Second Law
- 10: Entropy and Information
- 10.01: Information
- 10.02: Maxwells Demon
- 10.03: Entropy and Gravity