Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

Informationen zum Autor Professor Abel is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Exeter. Klappentext This text aims to help students understand energy, its different forms and transformations, and the key role of entropy, as applied to chemical systems.This text aims to help students understand energy, its different forms and transformations, and the key role of entropy, as applied to chemical systems. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; The First Law; Heat Capacity, Enthalpy and Thermochemistry; The Second and Third Laws: Entropy; Free Energy; Phase Transitions; Chemical Equilibrium; The Statistical Definition of Entropy; Connecting Microscopic and Macroscopic Properties; The Partition Function; An Ideal Gas of Atoms; An Ideal Gas of Diatomic Molecules; Statistical Mechanics and Equilibrium; Glossary; Answers to Problems; Subject Index.

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• Authors: Gale, J D Gale, J. D. Gale, J.D. Gale, J M Seddon, J M (Imperial College London Seddon, J. M. Seddon, J.M. Seddon, J.m. Gale Seddon, John M Seddon, John M (Imperial College London Seddon, John M. Seddon
• Assisted by: A. G. Davies (Editor), David Phillips (Editor)
• Publisher: Royal Society Of Chemistry
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.01.2002
• EAN: 9780854046324
• ISBN: 978-0-85404-632-4
• No. of pages: 170
• Series: Tutorial Chemistry Texts; Tutorial Chemistry Texts
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Thermodynamics