TY  - BOOK
AU  - Helrich,Carl S.
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Modern Thermodynamics with Statistical Mechanics
SN  - 9783540854180
AV  - QC310.15-319 
U1  - 536.7 23
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Berlin, Heidelberg
PB  - Springer Berlin Heidelberg
KW  - Physics
KW  - Energy
KW  - Physical chemistry
KW  - Continuum physics
KW  - Thermodynamics
KW  - Biophysics
KW  - Biological physics
KW  - Statistical physics
KW  - Dynamical systems
KW  - Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity
KW  - Biophysics and Biological Physics
KW  - Energy, general
KW  - Classical Continuum Physics
KW  - Physical Chemistry
N1  - Beginnings -- Formulation -- Mathematical Background -- Thermodynamic Potentials -- Structure of the Potentials -- Laboratory Measurements -- The Third Law -- Models of Matter -- Statistical Mechanics -- Quantum Statistical Mechanics -- Irreversibility -- Stability -- Equilibrium of Chemical Reactions -- Chemical Kinetics -- Solutions -- Heterogeneous Equilibrium
N2  - With the aim of presenting thermodynamics in as simple and as unified a form as possible, this textbook starts with an introduction to the first and second laws and then promptly addresses the complete set of the potentials in a subsequent chapter and as a central theme throughout. Before discussing modern laboratory measurements, the book shows that the fundamental quantities sought in the laboratory are those which are required for determining the potentials. Since the subjects of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics are a seamless whole, statistical mechanics is treated as integral part of the text. Other key topics such as irreversibility, the ideas of Ilya Prigogine, chemical reaction rates, equilibrium of heterogeneous systems, and transition-state theory serve to round out this modern treatment. An additional chapter covers quantum statistical mechanics due to active current research in Bose-Einstein condensation. End-of-chapter exercises, chapter summaries, and an appendix reviewing fundamental prerequisites supply students with helpful reinforcement and practice with key concepts
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85418-0
ER  -