This fully updated and expanded new edition continues to provide the most readable, concise, and easy-to-follow introduction to thermal physics. While maintaining the style of the original work, the book now covers statistical mechanics and incorporates worked examples systematically throughout the text. It also includes more problems and essential updates, such as discussions on superconductivity, magnetism, Bose-Einstein condensation, and climate change. Anyone needing to acquire an intuitive understanding of thermodynamics from first principles will find this third edition indispensable.
Andrew Rex is professor of physics at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. He is author of several textbooks and the popular science book, Commonly Asked Questions in Physics.
- ISBN10 1138703788
- ISBN13 9781138703780
- Publish Date 24 March 2017
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 March 2024
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint CRC Press
- Edition 3rd edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 386
- Language English