Microstates Entropy And Quanta

Author : Don Koks
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030024296
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Microstates, Entropy and Quanta written by Don Koks and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-25 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Statistical mechanics: the bane of many a physics student, and traditionally viewed as a long parade of ensembles, partition functions, and partial derivatives. But the subject needn't be arcane. When pared back to its underlying concepts and built from the ground up, statistical mechanics takes on a charm of its own, and sheds light on all manner of physical phenomena. This book presents a straightforward introduction to the key concepts in statistical mechanics, following the popular style of the author's highly successful textbook "Explorations in Mathematical Physics". Offering a clear, conceptual approach to the subject matter, the book presents a treatment that is mathematically complete, while remaining very accessible to undergraduates. It commences by asking: why does an ink drop spread out in a bathtub of water? This showcases the importance of counting configurations, which leads naturally to ideas of microstates, energy, entropy, thermodynamics, and physical chemistry. With this foundation, the Boltzmann distribution writes itself in its fullest form, and this opens the door to the Maxwell distribution and related areas of thermal conductivity and viscosity. Quantum ideas then appear: bosons via Einstein's and Debye's theories of heat capacity, and fermions via electrical conduction and low-temperature heat capacity of metals. The text ends with a detailed derivation of blackbody radiation, and uses this to discuss the greenhouse effect, lasers, and cosmology. Suitable for use with core undergraduate courses in statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, this book concentrates on using solid mathematics, while avoiding cumbersome notation. All the necessary mathematical steps are included in the body of the text and in the worked examples. Reviews of Explorations in Mathematical Physics by Don Koks, 2006 "With enjoyable and sometimes surprising excursions along the way, the journey provides a fresh look at many familiar topics, as it takes us from basic linear mathematics to general relativity... look forward to having your geometric intuition nourished and expanded by the author's intelligent commentaries." (Eugen Merzbacher, University of North Carolina) "... an interesting supplement to standard texts for teaching mathematical methods in physics, as it will add alternative views that could serve as additional material." (S. Marcelja, Australian Journal of Physics) "... a tour through the main ideas forming the language of modern mathematical physics ...it is a difficult task for the author to decide what is a good balance between the topics and their presentation, but in this case it has been achieved. ...for those physicists who would like to be exposed to clear motivation and careful explanation of the basics of the present-day apparatus of mathematical physics." (Ivailo Mladenov, Mathematical Reviews).

Author : Ruth W. Chabay
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470503475
Total Pages : 1128 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Matter and Interactions written by Ruth W. Chabay and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matter and Interactions offers a modern curriculum for introductory physics (calculus-based). It presents physics the way practicing physicists view their discipline and integrates 20th Century physics and computational physics. The text emphasizes the small number of fundamental principles that underlie the behavior of matter, and models that can explain and predict a wide variety of physical phenomena. Matter and Interactions will be available as a single volume hardcover text and also two paperback volumes.

Author : Don Koks
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387309438
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Explorations in Mathematical Physics written by Don Koks and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-09-15 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered why the language of modern physics centres on geometry? Or how quantum operators and Dirac brackets work? What a convolution really is? What tensors are all about? Or what field theory and lagrangians are, and why gravity is described as curvature? This book takes you on a tour of the main ideas forming the language of modern mathematical physics. Here you will meet novel approaches to concepts such as determinants and geometry, wave function evolution, statistics, signal processing, and three-dimensional rotations. You will see how the accelerated frames of special relativity tell us about gravity. On the journey, you will discover how tensor notation relates to vector calculus, how differential geometry is built on intuitive concepts, and how variational calculus leads to field theory. You will meet quantum measurement theory, along with Green functions and the art of complex integration, and finally general relativity and cosmology. The book takes a fresh approach to tensor analysis built solely on the metric and vectors, with no need for one-forms. This gives a much more geometrical and intuitive insight into vector and tensor calculus, together with general relativity, than do traditional, more abstract methods. Don Koks is a physicist at the Defence Science and Technology Organisation in Adelaide, Australia. His doctorate in quantum cosmology was obtained from the Department of Physics and Mathematical Physics at Adelaide University. Prior work at the University of Auckland specialised in applied accelerator physics, along with pure and applied mathematics.

Author : Charles Trapp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198701284
Total Pages : 737 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Students Solutions Manual to Accompany Physical Chemistry: Quanta, Matter, and Change 2e written by Charles Trapp and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Students Solutions Manual to Accompany Physical Chemistry: Quanta, Matter, and Change 2e provides full worked solutions to the 'a' exercises, and the odd-numbered discussion questions and problems presented in the parent book. The manual is intended for students and instructors alike, and provides helpful comments and friendly advice to aid understanding.

Author : Peter Atkins
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781429223751
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Solutions Manual for Quanta, Matter and Change written by Peter Atkins and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-12-15 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Flowers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781947172623
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Chemistry 2e written by Paul Flowers and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chemistry 2e is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the two-semester general chemistry course. The textbook provides an important opportunity for students to learn the core concepts of chemistry and understand how those concepts apply to their lives and the world around them. The book also includes a number of innovative features, including interactive exercises and real-world applications, designed to enhance student learning. The second edition has been revised to incorporate clearer, more current, and more dynamic explanations, while maintaining the same organization as the first edition. Substantial improvements have been made in the figures, illustrations, and example exercises that support the text narrative. Changes made in Chemistry 2e are described in the preface to help instructors transition to the second edition.

Author : M. R. Ponizovskiy
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527507122
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biophysical and Biochemical Mechanisms of Organism Development in Norm and Pathology written by M. R. Ponizovskiy and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book advances the knowledge of the mechanism development of a lived organism during its lifetime through the normal stationary state and quasi-stationary pathologic state from the viewpoints of biochemistry, biophysics, and thermodynamics. It explores the possibility of estimating experimental results from the three points of view, giving a broad perspective on the interaction between an organism and its environment. The book also describes the biophysical and biochemical mechanisms’ maintenance stability of internal energy according to the First and Second Law of Thermodynamics.

Author : Marcin Pawłowski
Publisher : MDPI
ISBN 13 : 3039289519
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Entropy in Foundations of Quantum Physics written by Marcin Pawłowski and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of outstanding papers on various aspects of entropy at the foundation of quantum physics. The covered topics range from purely foundational issues such as contextuality and Bell and Leggett–Garg inequalities to applications such as quantum key distribution, teleportation, and image encoding. The main ingredient binding them together in this book is that in all of the contained papers, entropy plays a key role either as a mathematical tool or as a link which bridges the gap between different fields of science.

Author : Ruth W. Chabay
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119462096
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Matter and Interactions, Volume 1 written by Ruth W. Chabay and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matter and Interactions offers a modern curriculum for introductory physics (calculus-based). It presents physics the way practicing physicists view their discipline while integrating 20th Century physics and computational physics. The text emphasizes the small number of fundamental principles that underlie the behavior of matter, and models that can explain and predict a wide variety of physical phenomena. Matter and Interactions will be available as a single volume hardcover text and also two paperback volumes. Volume One includes chapters 1-12.

Author : Ian Ford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118597494
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Statistical Physics written by Ian Ford and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-03-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This undergraduate textbook provides a statistical mechanical foundation to the classical laws of thermodynamics via a comprehensive treatment of the basics of classical thermodynamics, equilibrium statistical mechanics, irreversible thermodynamics, and the statistical mechanics of non-equilibrium phenomena. This timely book has a unique focus on the concept of entropy, which is studied starting from the well-known ideal gas law, employing various thermodynamic processes, example systems and interpretations to expose its role in the second law of thermodynamics. This modern treatment of statistical physics includes studies of neutron stars, superconductivity and the recently developed fluctuation theorems. It also presents figures and problems in a clear and concise way, aiding the student’s understanding.