ISBN : 9781032289823
Author : Andrew Rex
Publisher : CRC Press
Year : 2024
Language : English
Type : Book
Description : Selling Points • Provides the most concise and accessible introduction to thermodynamics starting from first principles, with many more worked examples and problems. • Incorporates statistical mechanics in two brand-new chapters. • Systematically incorporates more worked examples after introducing a new concept to show what the results mean numerically. • Continues to address the subtleties in a way unmatched by any other text, for topics such as the meaning of thermodynamic functions. • Offers a significant update on areas such as superconductivity, magnetism, Bose-Einstein condensation, climate change, and physics of information.