An Introduction to Thermal Physics

Table of Contents
Preface
1 Energy in Thermal Physics
	1.1 Thermal Equilibrium
	1.2 Ideal Gas
	1.3 Equipartition of Energy
	1.4 Heat and Work
	1.5 Compression Work
	1.6 Heat Capacities
	1.7 Rates of Processes
2. The Second Law
	2.1 Two-State System
	2.2 The Einstein Model of a Solid
	2.3 Interacting Systems
	2.4 Large Systems
	2.5 Ideal Gases
	2.6 Entropy
3 Interactions and Implications
	3.1 Temperature
	3.2 Entropy and Heat
	3.3 Paramagnetism
	3.4 Mechanical Equilibrium and Pressure
	3.5 Diffusive Equilibrium and Chemical Potential
	3.6 Summary and a Look Ahead
4 Engines and Refrigerators
	4.1 Heat Engines
	4.2 Refrigerators
	4.3 Real Heat Engines
	4.4 Real Refrigerators
5 Free Energy and Chemical Thermodynamics
	5.1 Free Energy as Available Work
	5.2 Free Energy as a Force toward Equilibrium
	5.3 Phase Transformations of Pure Substances
	5.4 Phase Transformations of Mixtures
	5.5 Dilute Solutions
	5.6 Chemical Equilbrium
6 Boltzmann Statistics
	6.1 The Boltzmann Factor
	6.2 Average Values
	6.3 The Equipartition Theorem
	6.4 The Maxwell Speed Distribution
	6.5 Partition Functions and Free Energy
	6.6 Partition Functions for Composite Systems
	6.7 Ideal Gas Revisited
7 Quantum Statistics
	7.1 Gibbs Factor
	7.2 Bosons and Fermions
	7.3 Degenerate Fermi Gases
	7.4 Blackbody Radiation
	7.5 Debye Theory of Solids
	7.6 Bose-Einstein Condensation
8 Systems of Interacting Particles
	8.1 Weakly Interacting Gases
	8.2 Ising Model of a Ferromagnet
Appendix A: Elements of Quantum Mechanics
	A.1 Evidence for Wave-Particle Duality
	A.2 Wavefunctions
	A.3 Definite-Energy Wavefunctions
	A.4 Angular Momentum
	A.5 Systems of Many Particles
	A.6 Quantum Field Theory
Appendix B: Mathematical Results
	B.1 Gaussian Integrals
	B.2 The Gamma Function
	B.3 Stirling's Approximation-
	B.4 Area of a d-dimensional Hypersphere
	B.5 Integrals of Quantum Statistics
Suggested Reading
Reference Data
Index