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Major American Univ. PhD Qualifying Questions and Solutions — Physics
PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS ON THERMODYNAMICS AND STATISTICAL MECHANICS
edited by Yung-Kuo Lim (National University of Singapore)
The material for these volumes has been selected from the past twenty years' examination questions for graduate students at University of California at Berkeley, Columbia University, the University of Chicago, MIT, State University of New York at Buffalo, Princeton University and University of Wisconsin.
Contents:
- Thermodynamics:
- Thermodynamic States and the First
Law
- The Second Law and Entropy
- Thermodynamic Functions and Equilibrium Conditions
- Change of Phase and Phase Equilibrium
- Phases in Equilibrium
- Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics
- Statistical Physics:
- Probability and Statistical Entropy
- Maxwell-Boltzmann Statistics
- Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac Statistics
- Ensembles
- Kinetic Theory of Gases
Readership: Graduate students, senior students and physics instructors.
"This collection will present students with the opportunity to test their comprehension and lecturers with ideas for problems."
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Pub. date: Feb 1990 |
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