Lectures on the Mechanical Foundations of Thermodynamics

Lectures on the Mechanical Foundations of Thermodynamics
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Total Pages : 99
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Download or read book Lectures on the Mechanical Foundations of Thermodynamics written by Michele Campisi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-30 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief provides a modern pedagogical exposition of the mechanical approach to statistical mechanics initiated by Boltzmann with his early works (1866-1871). Despite the later contribution by Helmholtz, Boltzmann himself (1884-1887), Gibbs, P. Hertz, and Einstein, the mechanical approach remained almost unknown to the modern reader, in favour of the celebrated combinatorial approach, developed by Boltzmann himself during his probabilistic turn (1876-1884). The brief constitutes an ideal continuation of a graduate course of classical mechanics and requires knowledge of basic calculus in many dimension (including differential forms), thermodynamics, probability theory, besides Hamiltonian mechanics. The cornerstone of the whole presentation is the ergodic hypothesis. Special attention is devoted to Massieu potentials (the Legendre transforms of the entropy) which are most natural in statistical mechanics, and also allow for a more direct treatment of the topic of ensemble equivalence.


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