内容简介

《热物理学》内容简介：Several aims guided me while I wrote. My first goal was to build from the familiar to the abstract 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 professor's perspective, a semester is a short time, and few undergraduate curricula can devote more than a semester to thermal physics.

目录

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