| Description |
1 online resource (238 p.) |
| Series |
Series in Computational Physics Ser |
|
Series in Computational Physics Ser
|
| Contents |
3.5. DISTRIBUTION OF ENERGY -- 3.6. DISTRIBUTION OF ENERGY AFTER MANY, MANY COLLISION EVENTS -- 3.7. DISTRIBUTION OF SPEED AFTER MANY, MANY COLLISION EVENTS -- 3.8. NOTE ON A MORE AMBITIOUS CODING PROJECT -- Chapter 4: Thermal Processes -- 4.1. STATE AND PROCESS -- 4.2. PLOTTING AND NUMERICAL INTEGRATION -- 4.3. PV DIAGRAM -- 4.4. ADIABATIC PROCESS -- 4.5. PROOF OF PVY = CONSTANT FOR AN ADIABAT OF IDEAL GAS -- 4.6. CARNOT CYCLE -- SECTION II: Statistical Mechanics -- Chapter 5: Premise of Statistical Mechanics -- 5.1. ANALOGY: WEALTH DISTRIBUTION -- 5.2. MATHEMATICAL NOTATIONS |
|
5.3. LISTING PERMUTATIONS -- 5.4. VISUALIZATION -- 5.5. COUNTING EXERCISE -- 5.6. CODE FOR ENUMERATING ALL POSSIBILITIES (VERSION 1) -- 5.7. CODE FOR ENUMERATING ALL POSSIBILITIES (VERSION 2) -- 5.8. BOLTZMANN DISTRIBUTION -- 5.9. MATH: LAGRANGE MULTIPLIER METHOD -- 5.10. MATH: STIRLING'S APPROXIMATION -- 5.11. BACK TO THE BOLTZMANN DISTRIBUTION -- Chapter 6: Revisiting Ideal Gas -- 6.1. A LITTLE BIT OF QUANTUM MECHANICS -- 6.2. DEGENERACY -- 6.3. PARTITION FUNCTION -- 6.4. AVERAGE ENERGY OF AN IDEAL GAS -- 6.5. VISUALIZING ENERGY LEVELS WITH DEGENERACY -- Chapter 7: Revisiting Thermal Processes |
|
7.1. REVIEW -- 7.2. THERMAL PROCESSES -- 7.3. CHECK -- Chapter 8: Entropy, Temperature, Energy, and Other Potentials -- 8.1. ENTROPY -- 8.2. LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS -- 8.3. TEMPERATURE AS A RATIO OF CHANGES IN ENERGY AND ENTROPY -- 8.4. IDENTIFYING B = 1/kBT -- 8.5. MATH: VOLUME OF A SPHERE -- 8.6. ENTROPY OF IDEAL GAS -- 8.7. ENTROPY OF IDEAL GAS, AGAIN -- 8.8. MOTIVATION FOR OTHER METRICS OF A THERMODYNAMIC SYSTEM -- 8.9. FOUR THERMODYNAMIC POTENTIALS: U,H, F,G -- 8.10. THERMODYNAMIC RELATIONS -- SECTION III: Examples -- Chapter 9: Two-State System -- 9.1. DYNAMIC CASE |
|
9.2. EQUILIBRIUM POTENTIAL -- 9.3. ACTION POTENTIAL -- 9.4. DIODE -- Chapter 10: Specific Heat -- 10.1. DEFINITION OF SPECIFIC HEAT -- 10.2. TWO-STATE SYSTEM -- 10.3. SIMPLE HARMONIC OSCILLATOR (SHO) -- 10.4. TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE OF ENERGY AND SPECIFIC HEAT -- 10.5. EINSTEIN MODEL OF SOLID -- Chapter 11: Random and Guided Walks -- 11.1. ONE-DIMENSIONAL RANDOM WALK -- 11.2. TWO-DIMENSIONAL RANDOM WALK -- 11.3. A TANGENT -- 11.4. GUIDED RANDOM WALKS -- Appendix -- APPENDIX A: GETTING STARTED WITH PYTHON -- APPENDIX B: PYTHON PROGRAMMING BASICS -- APPENDIX C: PLOTS -- APPENDIX D: COLORS |
| Summary |
This book provides an accessible introduction to thermal physics with computational approaches that complement the traditional mathematical treatments of classical thermodynamics and statistical mechanics |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
|
APPENDIX E: ANIMATION |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Kouh, Taejoon
|
| ISBN |
9781000848779 |
|
1000848779 |
|
