Nobel Laureate's brilliant attempt to develop a simple, unified standard method of dealing with all cases of statistical thermodynamics (classical, quantum, Bose-Einstein, Fermi-Dirac, etc.).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
I. General introduction
II. The method of the most probable distribution
III. Discussion of the Nernst theorem
IV. Examples on the second section
(a) Free mass-point (ideal monatomic gas)
(b) Planck's oscillator
(c) Fermi oscillator
V. Fluctuations
VI. The method of mean values
VII. The n-particle problem
VIII. Evaluation of the formulae. Limiting cases
The entropy constant
The failure of the classical theory. Gibb's paradox
Digression: Annihilation of matter?
Digression on the uncertainty relation
Gas-degeneration proper
Weak degeneration
Medium degeneration
Strong degeneration
(a) Strong Fermi-Dirac degeneration
(b) Strong Bose-Einstein degeneration
IX. The problem of radiation
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