Table of Contents

1. Introducing thermodynamics; 2. Onward to thermodynamics; 3. The First Law; 4. A mathematical digression; 5. Thermodynamics potentials; 6. On knowing the unknowable; 7. The ideal gas; 8. The 2-level system; 9. Lattice heat capacity; 10. Elastomers - entropy springs; 11. Thermodynamics of magnetism; 12. Open systems; 13. The amazing chemical potential; 14. Thermodynamics of radiation; 15. Ideal Fermi gas; 16. Ideal Bose–Einstein system; 17. Thermodynamics and the CMB; Appendices; Index.

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Links thermal physics and quantum mechanics to give advanced undergraduate and graduate students a modern appreciation for this remarkable subject.

About the Author

Allen L. Wassermann is Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Physics, Oregon State University. His research area is condensed matter physics.