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- catalog abstract ""This book has been designed to show how new powers and new insights, operative in the realm of classical macroscopic thermodynamics, emerge from its affiliation with the microcosmic realm of atoms. To begin, analysis of very simple microcanonical ensembles leads to a derivation of the Boltzmann distribution law. Then, exploitation of this relation is shown to invest the concepts of entropy and equilibrium with new meaning and significance, and the reader comes to see how thermodynamic magnitudes (e.g., gaseous heat capacities and equilibrium constants) can be calculated from spectroscopic data."--Back cover.".
- catalog contributor b1260191.
- catalog created "[1968]".
- catalog date "1968".
- catalog date "[1968]".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "[1968]".
- catalog description ""This book has been designed to show how new powers and new insights, operative in the realm of classical macroscopic thermodynamics, emerge from its affiliation with the microcosmic realm of atoms. To begin, analysis of very simple microcanonical ensembles leads to a derivation of the Boltzmann distribution law. Then, exploitation of this relation is shown to invest the concepts of entropy and equilibrium with new meaning and significance, and the reader comes to see how thermodynamic magnitudes (e.g., gaseous heat capacities and equilibrium constants) can be calculated from spectroscopic data."--Back cover.".
- catalog description "pt. I. Statistical mechanics. Microstates and configurations -- The distribution law -- Physical significance of the distribution law -- Relation of statistical mechanics to thermodynamics -- The relations of S to W -- pt. II. Statistical thermodynamics. The partition function -- An assembly of harmonic oscillators -- Einstein's heat-capacity law -- Partition function of an assembly -- Relations of thermodynamic functions to the partition function -- Partition function for multiple degrees of freedom -- The ideal monatomic gas -- Degeneracy -- The rotational degrees of freedom -- The vibrational degree of freedom -- Heat capacities of diatomic gases -- The equilibrium state -- The dissociation of iodine -- The distribution law revisited -- Conclusion.".
- catalog extent "vii, 128 p. :".
- catalog isPartOf "Addison-Wesley series in the principles of chemistry".
- catalog issued "1968".
- catalog issued "[1968]".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Reading, Mass., Addison-Wesley Pub. Co.".
- catalog subject "536/.701/5191".
- catalog subject "QC311.5 .N3".
- catalog subject "Statistical thermodynamics.".
- catalog subject "Statistics.".
- catalog subject "Thermodynamics.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. I. Statistical mechanics. Microstates and configurations -- The distribution law -- Physical significance of the distribution law -- Relation of statistical mechanics to thermodynamics -- The relations of S to W -- pt. II. Statistical thermodynamics. The partition function -- An assembly of harmonic oscillators -- Einstein's heat-capacity law -- Partition function of an assembly -- Relations of thermodynamic functions to the partition function -- Partition function for multiple degrees of freedom -- The ideal monatomic gas -- Degeneracy -- The rotational degrees of freedom -- The vibrational degree of freedom -- Heat capacities of diatomic gases -- The equilibrium state -- The dissociation of iodine -- The distribution law revisited -- Conclusion.".
- catalog title "Elements of statistical thermodynamics [by] Leonard K. Nash.".
- catalog type "text".