TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kittel,Charles 
AU  - Kroemer, Herbert 
TI  - Thermal physics
SN  - 9780716710882
U1  - 536.7 
PY  - 1980///
CY  - San Francisco : 
PB  - W.H. Freeman, 
KW  - Statistical thermodynamics
N1  - Includes Index; States of a model system --
Entropy and temperature --
Boltzmann distribution and Helmholtz free energy --
Thermal radiation and Planck distribution --
Chemical potential and Gibbs distribution --
Ideal gas --
Fermi and Bose gases --
Heat and work --
Gibbs free energy and chemical reactions --
Phase transformations --
Binary mixtures --
Cryogenics --
Semiconductor statistics --
Kinetic theory --
Propagation
N2  - For upper-level courses in Thermodynamics or Statistical Mechanics, this reprint with added information offers a modern approach to thermal physics that is based on the idea that all physical systems can be described in terms of their discrete quantum states, rather than drawing on 19th-century classical mechanics concepts.
ER  -