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008			091028r20102006enka b 001 0 eng
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020			_a9780199562107
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035			_a(OCoLC)320198157 _z(OCoLC)430497029
040			_aUKM _erda _cUKM _dDLC _dBTCTA _dBWKUK _dCGU _dCDX _dBWX _dDEBBG _dUWW _dEUM _dYDXCP _beng
042			_alccopycat
050	0	0	_aQC 254.2 _b.B628 2010
100	1		_aBlundell, Stephen, _d1967- _915057
245	1	0	_aConcepts in thermal physics / _cStephen J. Blundell and Katherine M. Blundell
250			_a2nd ed.
260			_aOxford ; _aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c2010.
300			_axviii, 493 pages : _billustrations ; _c26 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_aPrevious edition: 2006
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [485]-487) and index.
505	0		_a1. Introduction -- 2. Heat -- 3. Probability -- 4. Temperature and the Boltzmann factor -- 5. Maxwell-Boltzman n distribution -- 6. Pressure -- 7. Molecular effusion -- 8. Mean free path and collisions -- 9. Transport properties in gases -- 10. Thermal diffusion equation -- 11. Energy -- 12. Isothermal and adiabatic processes -- 13. Heat engines and the second law -- 14. Entropy -- 15. Information theory -- 16. Thermodynamic potentials -- 17. Rods, bubbles, and magnets -- 18. Third law -- 19. Equipartition of energy -- 20. Partition function -- 21. Statistical mechanics of an ideal gas -- 22. Chemical potential -- 23. Photons -- 24. Phonons -- 25. Relativistic gases -- 26. Real gases -- 27. Cooling real gases -- 28. Phase transitions -- 29. Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac distributions -- 30. Quantum gases and condensates -- 31. Sound waves -- 32. Shock waves -- 33. Brownian motion and fluctuations -- 34. Non-equilibrium thermodynamics -- 35. Stars -- 36. Compact objects -- 37. Earth's atmosphere -- A. Fundamental constants -- B. Useful formulae -- C. Useful mathematics -- D. electromagnetic spectrum -- E. Some thermodynamical definitions -- F. Thermodynamic expansion formulae -- G. Reduced mass -- H. Glossary of main symbols
520	8		_aThis text provides a modern introduction to the main principles of thermal physics, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. The key concepts are presented and new ideas are illustrated with worked examples as well as description of the historical background to their discovery
650		0	_aThermodynamics. _923321
650		0	_aHeat. _927685
700	1		_aBlundell, Katherine M. _927686
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aBlundell, Stephen, 1967- _tConcepts in thermal physics. _b2nd ed. _dOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010 _z0199562091 _w(OCoLC)607907330
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