THERMAL PHYSICS: ENTROPY AND FREE ENERGIES | First Edition Edition
ISBN:9810248741
ISBN-13: 9789810248741
ISBN-13: 9789810248741
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Details about THERMAL PHYSICS: ENTROPY AND FREE ENERGIES:
This book is an informal, readable introduction to the basic ideas of thermal physics. It is aimed at making the reader feel comfortable with the extremum principles of entropy and free energies. There is a repeating theme: Molecules (spins) do X to maximize their entropy, and molecules (spins) do XX to minimize their free energy. This finally leads to the idea of the Landau-Ginzburg free energy functional. The author illustrates how powerful the idea is by using two examples from phase transitions.
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