Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics - An Integrated Approach

Learn classical thermodynamics alongside statistical mechanics and how macroscopic and microscopic ideas interweave with this fresh approach to the subjects.

List of contents

1. Introduction and guide to this text; 2. Equilibrium and entropy; 3. Energy and how the microscopic world works; 4. Entropy and how the macroscopic world works; 5. The fundamental equation; 6. The first law and reversibility; 7. Legendre transforms and other potentials; 8. Maxwell relations and measurable quantities; 9. Gases; 10. Phase equilibrium; 11. Stability; 12. Solutions - fundamentals; 13. Solutions - advanced and special cases; 14. Solids; 15. The third law; 16. The canonical partition function; 17. Fluctuations; 18. Statistical mechanics of classical systems; 19. Other ensembles; 20. Reaction equilibrium; 21. Reaction coordinates and rates; 22. Molecular simulation methods.

About the author

M. Scott Shell is an Associate Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He earned his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Princeton in 2005 and is well known for his ability to communicate complex ideas and teach in an engaging manner. He is the recipient of a Dreyfus Foundation New Faculty Award, an NSF CAREER Award, a Hellman Family Faculty Fellowship, a Northrop Grumman Teaching Award, and a Sloan Research Fellowship.

Product details

• Authors: M Scott Shell, M. Scott Shell
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.04.2015
• EAN: 9781107014534
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01453-4
• No. of pages: 500
• Series: Cambridge Series in Chemical E; Cambridge Series in Chemical Engineering
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Chemical engineering; SCIENCE / Chemistry / Industrial & Technical, SCIENCE / Physics / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Engineering (General), SCIENCE / Mechanics / Thermodynamics, Chemical Engineering, Thermodynamics & heat, Engineering thermodynamics, Statistical physics, Thermodynamics and heat, Industrial chemistry and chemical engineering