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An Introduction to Applied Statistical Thermodynamics
John Wiley and Sons Ltd, Dec 2010, Pages: 360
With the present emphasis on nano and bio technologies, molecular level descriptions and understandings offered by statistical mechanics are of increasing interest and importance. This text emphasizes how statistical thermodynamics is and can be used by chemical engineers and physical chemists. The text shows readers the path from molecular level approximations to the applied, macroscopic thermodynamic models engineers use, and introduces them to molecular-level computer simulation.
Readers of this book will develop an appreciation for the beauty and utility of statistical mechanics.
As the author of a widely used undergraduate textbook on thermodynamics (Chemical, Biochemical and Engineering Thermodynamics, 4th ed) and a teacher of a graduate course in chemical engineering thermodynamics, I am frequently asked what I do teach in the graduate course My first goal is to bring everyone to the same level. I do this by covering material in my two-semester undergraduate textbook in the first half of the one semester graduate course. My second goal is to introduce the students to the fundamental ideas and engineering uses of statistical thermodynamics, the equilibrium part of the statistical mechanics, in the remainder of the semester. It is for this part of the course that I use material in my new book An Introduction to Applied Statistical Thermodynamics,
- Stresses applications of statistical mechanics: This is NOT a book with chapter upon chapter of theory common in statistical mechanics textbooks. In a short introduction to statistical thermodynamics (as this is) for students unfamiliar with the subject, the author believes there is greater value in showing its structure and how it can be useful, rather than in dwelling on the fine details of derivations.
- Demystifies molecular-level approximations: Shows the path from molecular level approximations to the applied, macroscopic thermodynamic models engineers use, as well as providing an introduction to molecular-level computer simulation, that is in silico statistical thermodynamics.
- Computer Simulation: This book provides an introduction to the simplest forms of Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulation (for simple spherical molecules) and user-friendly MATLAB programs for doing such simulations, and also some other calculations.
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