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Thermal Physics by Charles Kittel, University of California; Herbert Kroemer, University of California - Second Edition, 1980 from Macmillan Student Store
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Thermal Physics

Second Edition| ©1980 Charles Kittel, University of California; Herbert Kroemer, University of California

CONGRATULATIONS TO HERBERT KROEMER, 2000 NOBEL LAUREATE FOR PHYSICS
 
For upper-division courses in thermodynamics or statistical mechanics, Kittel and Kroemer offers a modern approach to thermal physics that is based on the idea that all physical systems can be described...
CONGRATULATIONS TO HERBERT KROEMER, 2000 NOBEL LAUREATE FOR PHYSICS
 
For upper-division courses in thermodynamics or statistical mechanics, Kittel and Kroemer offers a modern approach to thermal physics that is based on the idea that all physical systems can be described in terms of their discrete quantum states, rather than drawing on 19th-century classical mechanics concepts.
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Thermal Physics by Charles Kittel, University of California; Herbert Kroemer, University of California - Second Edition, 1980 from Macmillan Student Store

CONGRATULATIONS TO HERBERT KROEMER, 2000 NOBEL LAUREATE FOR PHYSICS
 
For upper-division courses in thermodynamics or statistical mechanics, Kittel and Kroemer offers a modern approach to thermal physics that is based on the idea that all physical systems can be described in terms of their discrete quantum states, rather than drawing on 19th-century classical mechanics concepts.

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Thermal Physics

Second Edition| ©1980

Charles Kittel, University of California; Herbert Kroemer, University of California

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Thermal Physics by Charles Kittel, University of California; Herbert Kroemer, University of California - Second Edition, 1980 from Macmillan Student Store

Thermal Physics

Second Edition| 1980

Charles Kittel, University of California; Herbert Kroemer, University of California

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. States of a Model System
2. Entropy and Temperature
3. Boltzmann Distribution and Helmholtz Free Energy
4. Thermal Radiation and Planck Distribution
5. Chemical Potential and Gibbs Distribution
6. Ideal Gas
7. Fermi and Bose Gases
8. Heat and Work
9. Gibbs Free Energy and Chemical Reactions
10. Phase Transformations
11. Binary Mixtures
12. Cryogenics
13.  Semiconductor Statistics
14. Kinetic Theory
15.  Propagation
Appendixes
Index
Thermal Physics by Charles Kittel, University of California; Herbert Kroemer, University of California - Second Edition, 1980 from Macmillan Student Store

Thermal Physics

Second Edition| 1980

Charles Kittel, University of California; Herbert Kroemer, University of California

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