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Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics Paperback - 2014

by Peter T. Landsberg


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Innovative and wide-ranging, this treatment combines precise mathematic style with strong physical intuition. Written by a well-known physicist for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, the book's broad spectrum of applications includes negative temperatures and heat capacities, general and special relativistic effects, black hole thermodynamics, gravitational collapse, energy conversion problems, and efficiencies including simple heat pump theory.
The basic ideas and mathematical formulation of thermodynamics are presented in a modern, clear way with the Carathodory method, which is employed fully, but in simple terms and without advanced mathematics. Statistical mechanics are based on ideas from information theory, and the simpler ideal systems are covered in close connection with the thermodynamic treatment. Mathematical steps are displayed in detail, and abundant problems include worked solutions.

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Innovative and wide-ranging, this treatment combines precise mathematic style with strong physical intuition. Written by a well-known physicist for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, the book's broad spectrum of applications includes negative temperatures and heat capacities, general and special relativistic effects, black hole thermodynamics, gravitational collapse, energy conversion problems, and efficiencies including simple heat pump theory.
The basic ideas and mathematical formulation of thermodynamics are presented in a modern, clear way with the Carath�odory method, which is employed fully, but in simple terms and without advanced mathematics. Statistical mechanics are based on ideas from information theory, and the simpler ideal systems are covered in close connection with the thermodynamic treatment. Mathematical steps are displayed in detail, and abundant problems include worked solutions.
Dover (2014) unabridged, corrected republication of the edition originally published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, England, 1978.
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  • Title Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
  • Author Peter T. Landsberg
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 480
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Dover Publications, U.S.A.
  • Date 2014-06
  • ISBN 9780486664934 / 0486664937
  • Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.16 x 6.11 x 0.9 in (23.27 x 15.52 x 2.29 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Thermodynamics, Statistical mechanics
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 90044302
  • Dewey Decimal Code 536.7

About the author

Peter T. Landsberg (1922-2010) taught at University College Cardiff from 1959 to 1971 and held the chair in Applied Mathematics at the University of Southampton from 1982 to 1987. He wrote, edited, and coauthored 11 books, including Dover's Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, and more than 400 scientific papers.
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