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This textbook concerns thermal properties of bulk matter and is aimed at advanced undergraduate or first-year graduate students in a range of programs in science or engineering. It provides an intermediate level presentation of statistical thermodynamics for students in the physical sciences (chemistry, nanosciences, physics) or related areas of applied science/engineering (chemical engineering, materials science, nanotechnology engineering), as they are areas in which statistical mechanical concepts play important roles. The book enables students to utilize microscopic concepts to achieve a better understanding of macroscopic phenomena and to be able to apply these concepts to the types of sub-macroscopic systems encountered in areas of nanoscience and nanotechnology.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Basic background material.- Chapter 2. Macroscopic thermodynamics.- Chapter 3. Ensembles: systems of particles.- Chapter 4. Mean values and thermodynamics.- Chapter 5. Atomic systems.- Chapter 6. Molecular systems.- Chapter 7. Classical statistical mechanics.- Chapter 8. Electric and magnetic phenomena.- Chapter 9. Chemical equilibrium.- Chapter 10. Quantum statistics.
About the author
Dr. Frederick Richard Wayne McCourt is Distinguished Professor Emeritus Department of Chemistry University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Summary
This textbook concerns thermal properties of bulk matter and is aimed at advanced undergraduate or first-year graduate students in a range of programs in science or engineering. It provides an intermediate level presentation of statistical thermodynamics for students in the physical sciences (chemistry, nanosciences, physics) or related areas of applied science/engineering (chemical engineering, materials science, nanotechnology engineering), as they are areas in which statistical mechanical concepts play important roles. The book enables students to utilize microscopic concepts to achieve a better understanding of macroscopic phenomena and to be able to apply these concepts to the types of sub-macroscopic systems encountered in areas of nanoscience and nanotechnology.
