Thermal Physics     (Second Edition)

               Charles Kittel, Herbert Kroemer (University of California)
 
 

                 Contents

                       Preface ................................................................................................ vii
              Introduction .........................................................................................   1

                   Chapter 1.   States of a Model System ...............................................   5
                   Chapter 2.   Entropy and Temperature ..............................................  27
                   Chapter 3.   Boltzmann Distribution and Helmholtz Free Energy .......    55
                   Chapter 4.   Thermal Radiation and Planck Distribution ................. ..    87
                   Chapter 5.   Chemical Potential and Gibbs Distribution ....................   117
                   Chapter 6.   Ideal Gas ....................................................................  151
                   Chapter 7.   Fermi and Bose Gases .................................................. 181
                   Chapter 8.   Heat and Work ............................................................ 225
                   Chapter 9.   Gibbs Free Energy and Chemical Reactions .................    261
                   Chapter 10. Phase Transformations ...............................................   275
                   Chapter 11. Binary Mixtures .........................................................   309
                   Chapter 12. Cryogenics ................................................................   333
                   Chapter 13. Semiconductor Statistics .............................................   389
                   Chapter 14. Kinetic Theory ...........................................................  389
                   Chapter 15. Propagation ................................................................  423

                   Appendix A  Some Integrals Containing Exponentials .......................  439
                   Appendix B  Temperature Scales ...................................................   445
                   Appendix C  Poisson Distribution ...................................................  453
                   Appendix D  Presure .....................................................................  459
                   Appendix E  Negative Temperatures ..............................................  460

                    Index  ........................................................................................   465