- Contents
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Part I: Preliminaries
- 1 Introduction 2
- 2 Heat 13
- 3 Probability 18
- 4 Temperature and the Boltzmann factor 30
Part II: Kinetic theory of gases
- 5 The Maxwell--Boltzmann distribution 46
- 6 Pressure 54
- 7 Molecular effusion 62
- 8 The mean free path and collisions 68
Part III: Transport and thermal diffusion
- 9 Transport properties in gases 74
- 10 The thermal diffusion equation 88
Part IV: The first law
- 11 Energy 104
- 12 Isothermal and adiabatic processes 114
Part V: The second law
- 13 Heat engines and the second law 122
- 14 Entropy 136
- 15 Information theory 153
Part VI: Thermodynamics in action
- 16 Thermodynamic potentials 164
- 17 Rods, bubbles and magnets 182
- 18 The third law 193
Part VII: Statistical mechanics
- 19 Equipartition of energy 200
- 20 The partition function 209
- 21 Statistical mechanics of an ideal gas 221
- 22 The chemical potential 232
- 23 Photons 247
- 24 Phonons 263
Part VIII: Beyond the ideal gas
- 25 Relativistic gases 274
- 26 Real gases 280
- 27 Cooling real gases 297
- 28 Phase transitions 305
- 29 Bose--Einstein and Fermi--Dirac distributions 325
- 30 Quantum gases and condensates 337
Part IX: Special topics
- 31 Sound waves 354
- 32 Shock waves 361
- 33 Brownian motion and fluctuations 368
- 34 Non-equilibrium thermodynamics 386
- 35 Stars 398
- 36 Compact objects 413
- 37 Earth's atmosphere 424
Appendices
- A Fundamental constants 433
- B Useful formulae 434
- C Useful mathematics 436
- D The electromagnetic spectrum 451
- E Some thermodynamical definitions 452
- F Thermodynamic expansion formulae 453
- G Reduced mass 454
- H Glossary 455
- I Bibliography 457
- Index 460
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