Thermal Physics: Entropy And Free Energies (2nd Edition)

Introduction to Thermal Physics; All You Need to Know to Read the Rest of the Book; Isolated Thermal Systems; Systems in Contact with a Thermal Reservoir; Entropy as a Measure of Disorder; Open Systems Exposed to Heat and Particle Reservoir; Flexible Systems: Systems in Contact with Heat and Volume Reservoir; Two More Energy-Like Functions and Concluding Remarks; Quantum Ideal Gas; Thermodynamics; Energy Versus Free Energy; Phases and Phase Transitions; Second-Order Phase Transitions; Landau-Ginzburg Free Energy Functional and Applications; Quantum Fluid; Computer Simulations.