Concepts in thermal physics
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I: PRELIMINARIES 1. Introduction 2. Heat 3. Probability 4. Temperature and the Boltzmann factor II: KINETIC THEORY OF GASES 5. The Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution 6. Pressure 7. Molecular effusion 8. The mean free path and collisions III: TRANSPORT AND THERMAL DIFFUSION 9. Transport properties in gases 10. The thermal diffusion equation IV: THE FIRST LAW 11. Energy 12. Isothermal and adiobatic processes V: THE SECOND LAW 13. Heat engines and the second law 14. Entropy 15. Information theory VI: THERMODYNAMICS IN ACTION 16. Thermodynamic potentials 17. Rods, bubbles and magnets 18. The third law VII: STATISTICAL MECHANICS 19. Equipartition of energy 20. The partition function 21. Statistical mechanics of an ideal gas 22. The chemical potential 23. Photons 24. Phonons VIII: BEYOND THE IDEAL GAS 25. Relativistic gases 26. Real gases 27. Cooling real gases 28. Phase transitions 29. Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac distributions 30. Quantum gases and condensates IX: SPECIAL TOPICS 31. Sound waves 32. Shock waves 33. Brownian motion and fluctuations 34. Non-equilibrium thermodynamics 35. Stars 36. Compact objects 37. Earth's atmosphere