A Guide to Physics Problems – Thermodynamics, Statistical Physics and Quantum Me

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Table of contents :
Cover……Page 1
Foreword……Page 6
Preface……Page 8
Contents……Page 14
PROBLEMS……Page 26
Introductory Thermodynamics……Page 28
Heat and Work……Page 39
Ideal Gas and Classical Statistics……Page 44
Nonideal Gas……Page 51
Mixtures and Phase Separation……Page 53
Quantum Statistics……Page 57
Fluctuations……Page 67
Applications to Solid State……Page 70
One- Dimensional Potentials……Page 76
Harmonic Oscillator……Page 81
Angular Momentum and Spin……Page 85
Variational Calculations……Page 88
Perturbation Theory……Page 91
WKB……Page 96
Scattering Theory……Page 98
General……Page 102
SOLUTIONS……Page 106
Introductory Thermodynamics……Page 108
Heat and Work……Page 137
Ideal Gas and Classical Statistics……Page 153
Nonideal Gas……Page 176
Mixtures and Phase Separation……Page 183
Quantum Statistics……Page 195
Fluctuations……Page 232
Applications to Solid State……Page 248
One- Dimensional Potentials……Page 268
Harmonic Oscillator……Page 282
Angular Momentum and Spin……Page 291
Variational Calculations……Page 303
Perturbation Theory……Page 312
Scattering Theory……Page 337
General……Page 347
APPENDIXES……Page 358