Thermal physics: entropy and free energies
Auteur :
Lee, Joon Chang
Éditeur :
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
ISBN :
9789810248741
Date de publication :
18 mars 2002
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Singapour
An introduction to the basic ideas of thermal physics, designed to make the reader feel comfortable with the principles of entropy and free energies. The author explains the idea of the Landau-Ginzburg free-energy functional and describes two examples from phase transitions.