Textbook. — Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1955. — 61 p.
This booklet describes a course for students of physics and chemistry in their first term at a university provided they have passed G.C.E. at advanced level in pure mathematics, applied mathematics, physics and chemistry.
Elements of quantum theory.
Temperature and partition functions.
Separable, unexcited and classical degrees of freedom. Harmonic oscillator.
Ideal monatomic gas.
Free energy and total energy.
Equilibrium.
Equipartition of kinetic energy.
Simple crystal.
Ideal diatomic gas.
Phase equilibrium.
Dielectric constant of a gas.
Chemical equilibrium.
Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein distributions.