An understanding of thermal physics is crucial to much of modern physics, chemistry and engineering. This book provides a modern introduction to the main principles that are foundational to thermal physics, thermodynamics, and statistical mechanics. The key concepts are carefully presented in a clear way, and new ideas are illustrated with copious worked examples as well as a description of the historical background to their discovery. Applications are presented to subjects as diverse as stellar astrophysics, information and communication theory, condensed matter physics, and climate change. Each chapter concludes with detailed exercises.
- ISBN10 1322105812
- ISBN13 9781322105819
- Publish Date 1 January 2009 (first published 1 August 2006)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 4 March 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Oxford University Press, USA
- Edition Revised ed.
- Format eBook
- Pages 512
- Language English