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- Supports teaching with numerous solved problems reaching from cosmic to molecular evolution or from cloud formation to Bose condensation
- Bridges the gap between statistical mechanics and physical chemistry for students in physics and chemistry alike
- Contains a special chapter on molecular simulation including a Grand-Canonical Monte Carlo program in Mathematica
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics (ULNP)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
“With this volume of concise theoretical developments and numerous, detailed applications, the author shows that mastering thermodynamics is indispensable for understanding properties and processes at finite temperature. … Hentschke’s Thermodynamics is a valuable resource for students and faculty of statistical mechanics courses at the advanced-undergraduate or graduate level.” (Jutta Luettmer-Strathmann, Physics Today, September, 2015)
“As part of the ‘Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics’ series, this book is meant to support and complement undergraduate instruction on the topic. … provides several nicely worked-out problems fostering a deeper understanding of thermodynamics. … Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and graduate students.” (H. Giesche, Choice, Vol. 51 (9), May, 2014)Authors and Affiliations
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Faculty C Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Bergische Universität, Wuppertal, Germany
Reinhard Hentschke
About the author
Reinhard Hentschke got his PhD degree in 1987 at the University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA. Since 1999 he has been Professor of theoretical physics (statistical mechanics of soft matter/chemical physics) at the Bergische Universität, Wuppertal, Germany. His research interests have frequently straddled the boundary between physics and chemistry. As a group leader at the Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research he has concentrated on computer modelling of polymers.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Thermodynamics
Book Subtitle: For Physicists, Chemists and Materials Scientists
Authors: Reinhard Hentschke
Series Title: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36711-3
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-36711-3Published: 18 September 2013
Series ISSN: 2192-4791
Series E-ISSN: 2192-4805
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 304
Number of Illustrations: 120 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Thermodynamics, Physical Chemistry, Complex Systems, Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation, Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems