Several aims guided me while I wrote. My first goal was to build from the familiar to the abstractModel and still get to entropy, conceived microscopically, in the second chapter. I sought to keep the book crisp and lean: derivations were to be succinct and simple; topics were to be those essential for physics and astronomy. From the professors perspective, a semester is a short time, and few undergraduate curricula can devote more than a semester to thermal physics.
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Preface 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 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 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 Further reading 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 Further reading 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 Further reading 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 Further reading 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 Further reading 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 Further reading 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 …… 15 Transport Processes 16 Critical Pheneomena