Kittel Ch., Kroemer H. Thermal Physics

2nd Edition, W.H. Freeman and Company, 1980, 475 pages, ISBN: 0716710889For upper-division courses in thermodynamics or statistical mechanics, Kittel and Kroemer 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.
This book gives an elementary account of thermal physics. The subject is simple, the methods are powerful and the results have broad applications. Probably no other physical theory is used more widely throughout science and engineering.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
Some Integrals Con taining Exponentials
Temperature Scales
Poisson Distribution
Pressure
Negative Temperature