An Introduction to Thermal Physics (Schroeder) ============================================== .. toctree:: Introduction.rst 1.1 Thermal Equilibrium.rst 1.2 The Ideal Gas.rst 1.3 Equipartition of Energy.rst 1.4 Heat and Work.rst 1.5 Compression Work.rst 1.6 Heat Capacities.rst 1.7 Rates of Processes.rst 2.1 Two-State Systems.rst 2.2 The Einstein Model of a Solid.rst 2.3 Interacting Systems.rst 2.4 Large Systems.rst 2.5 The Ideal Gas.rst 2.6 Entropy.rst 3.1 Temperature.rst 3.2 Entropy and Heat.rst 3.3 Paramagnetism.rst 3.4 Mechanical Equilibrium and Pressure.rst 3.5 Diffusive Equilibrium and Chemical Potential.rst 3.6 Summary and a Look Ahead.rst 4.1 Heat Engines.rst 4.2 Refrigerators.rst 4.3 Real Heat Engines.rst 4.4 Real Refrigerators.rst 5.1 Free Energy as Available Work.rst 5.2 Free Energy as a Force Towards Equilibrium.rst 5.3 Phase Transformations of Pure Substances.rst 5.4 Phase Transformations of Mixtures.rst 5.5 Dilute Solutions.rst 5.6 Chemical Equilibrium.rst 6.1 The Boltzmann Factor.rst 6.2 Average Values.rst 6.3 The Equipartition Theorem.rst 6.4 The Maxwell Speed Distribution.rst 6.5 Partition Functions and Free Energy.rst 6.6 Partition Functions for Composite Systems.rst 6.7 Ideal Gas Revisited.rst 7.1 The Gibbs Factor.rst 7.2 Bosons and Fermions.rst 7.3 Degenerate Fermi Gases.rst 7.4 Blackbody Radiation.rst 7.5 Debye Theory of Solids.rst 7.6 Bose-Einstein Condensation.rst 8.1 Weakly Interacting Gases.rst 8.2 The Ising Model of a Ferromagnet.rst A.1 Evidence for Wave-Particle Duality.rst A.2 Wavefunctions.rst A.3 Definite-Energy Wavefunctions.rst A.4 Angular Momentum.rst A.5 Systems of Many Particles.rst A.6 Quantum Field Theory.rst B.1 Gaussian Integrals.rst B.2 The Gamma Function.rst B.3 Stirling's Approximations.rst B.4 Area of a d-Dimensional Hypersphere.rst B.5 Integrals of Quantum Statistics.rst