Author: Dr. Hrishikesh Chatterjee

Binding: paperback

Release Date: 01-12-2018

Details: This text offers a comprehensive and rigorous treatment of classical and statistical thermodynamics for students both at the undergraduate and post graduate levels. The author, with his years of rich teaching experience, has explained the subject with adequate illustrations and examples for proper understanding of the theoretical concepts. Special emphasis has been laid on the concepts of Chemical potential and activity, Bioenergetics of life process and Thermodynamics of polymer solution. Numerous important thermodynamic derivations have been included in worked out examples. A large number of solved and unsolved numerical problems on classical and statistical thermodynamics are included as worked out examples and end-of- chapter problems to increase student comprehension. Overall, this text will encourage students to monitor their own learning of the simple but most abstract subject of thermodynamics. Key Features: Offers a clear account of concepts of statistical mechanics and statistical viewpoint of equilibrium. Offers detailed discussion on Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics, Bose Einstein statistics, and Fermi-Dirac statistics along with applications. Offers detailed discussion on the statistical view point of transition state theory, Einstein’s theory and Debye Theory of heat-capacity of solids and the likes. Application of thermodynamics to bioenergetics. Irreversible thermodynamics.

EAN: 9788189874476