A Guide to Physics Problems. Part 2. Thermodynamics, Statistical Physics, and Quantum Mechanics

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Thermodynamics, Statistical Physics, and Quantum Mechanics A GUIDE TO PHYSICS PROBLEMS part 2 ...

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Thermodynamics, Statistical Physics, and Quantum Mechanics Sidney B. Cahn New York University New York, New York Gerald D. Mahan ...

eBook ISBN: 0-306-48401- Print ISBN: 0-306- 45291 - X ©200 4 Kluwer Academic Publishers New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Mos ...

Foreword It is only rarely realized how important the design of suitable, interesting problems is in the educational process. Th ...

vi Foreword with some embarrassment that some of the problems gave me more trouble than I had expected. But, of course, this is ...

Preface Part 2 of A Guide to Physics Problems contains problems from written graduate qualifying examinations at many universiti ...

viii Preface happy totrust us withtheir problems. We wish tothank thePhysicsDepart- ments of Boston University (Boston), Univers ...

Sidney Cahn New York Gerald Mahan Oak Ridge Boris Nadgorny Washington, D.C. magazinessuch as Kvant. A few of the problems were c ...

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Textbooks Used in the Preparation of this Volume Chapter 4 — Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics Landau, L. D., and Lifshitz, ...

xii Textbooks Used in the Preparation ofthisVolume Sakurai, J. J.,Modern Quantum Mechanics, Menlo Park: Benjamin/ Cummings, 1985 ...

Contents PART I: PROBLEMS 4.Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics IntroductoryThermodynamics Why Bother? (Moscow Phys-Tech) Spa ...

4.21. 4.22. xiv Atmospheric Energy(Rutgers) Puncture(Moscow Phys-Tech) Heat and Work Cylinder withMassivePiston(Rutgers, Moscow ...

Contents xv 4.53.CriticalParameters(Stony Brook) Mixtures andPhase Separation Entropy of Mixing(Michigan, MIT) Leaky Balloon (Mo ...

xvi Contents 42 42 43 43 43 44 44 44 44 45 45 45 45 46 46 47 47 47 48 49 51 51 51 52 52 53 54 54 54 55 55 55 56 56 Fluctuations ...

Contents xvii 5.13.Combined Potential (Tennessee)^56 Harmonic Oscillator 5.14. 5.15. 5.16. 5.17. 5.18. 56 56 57 57 58 5.19. 5.20 ...

xviii Contents 5.45. 5.46. 5.47. 5.48. 5.49. 5.50. 5.51. 5.52. 68 68 69 69 69 70 70 70 5.53. 5.54. 5.55. 5.56. 5.57. 5.58. 5.59. ...

Contents PART II: SOLUTIONS xix 4.Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics IntroductoryThermodynamics 4.1. 4.2. 4.3. 4.4. 4.5. 4.6 ...