Description
Book SynopsisThis introductory textbook provides a synthetic overview of the laws and formal aspects of thermodynamics and was designed for undergraduate students in physics, and in the physical sciences. Language and notation have been kept as simple as possible throughout the text.
While this is a self-contained text on thermodynamics (i.e. focused on macroscopic physics), emphasis is placed on the microscopic underlying model to facilitate the understanding of key concepts such as entropy, and motivate a future course on statistical physics.
This book will equip the reader with an understanding of the scope of this discipline and of its applications to a variety of physical systems
Throughout the text readers are continuously challenged with conceptual questions that prompt reflection and facilitate the understanding of subtle issues. Each chapter ends by presenting worked problems to support and motivate self-study, in addition to a series of proposed exercises whose solu
Table of Contents
1 Thermodynamics Key Concepts 2 The First Law 3 The Second Law 4 The Third Law 5 Thermodynamic Potentials 6 Thermodynamics of Extensive Systems 7 Phase Transitions 8 Magnetic Systems 9 Thermal Radiation
