Title Modern Thermodynamics with Statistical Mechanics Author(s) Helrich, Carl S Publication Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009. Description XIII, 402 p : online resource Abstract Note With the aim of presenting thermodynamics in as simple and as unified a form as possible, this textbook starts with an introduction to the first and second laws and then promptly addresses the complete set of the potentials in a subsequent chapter and as a central theme throughout. Before discussing modern laboratory measurements, the book shows that the fundamental quantities sought in the laboratory are those which are required for determining the potentials. Since the subjects of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics are a seamless whole, statistical mechanics is treated as integral part of the text. Other key topics such as irreversibility, the ideas of Ilya Prigogine, chemical reaction rates, equilibrium of heterogeneous systems, and transition-state theory serve to round out this modern treatment. An additional chapter covers quantum statistical mechanics due to active current research in Bose-Einstein condensation. End-of-chapter exercises, chapter summaries, and an appendix reviewing fundamental prerequisites supply students with helpful reinforcement and practice with key concepts ISBN,Price 9783540854180 Keyword(s) 1. Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics 2. BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS 3. BIOPHYSICS 4. Classical and Continuum Physics 5. COMPLEX SYSTEMS 6. Continuum physics 7. DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS 8. EBOOK 9. EBOOK - SPRINGER 10. ENERGY 11. Energy, general 12. PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY 13. STATISTICAL PHYSICS 14. THERMODYNAMICS Item Type eBook Multi-Media Links Please Click here for eBook Circulation Data Accession#   Call# Status Issued To Return Due On Physical Location I07648     On Shelf