| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Introduction to statistical thermodynamics/ by Marcus Elstner, Qiang Cui, Maja Gruden. |
| Reminder of title: |
a molecular perspective / |
| Author: |
Elstner, Marcus. |
| other author: |
Cui, Qiang. |
| Published: |
Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2024., |
| Description: |
xxvi, 554 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Part I Microscopic and Macroscopic Theories -- Why Statistical Thermodynamics? -- Energies of Molecules -- Dynamics of molecules -- The laws of thermodynamics -- Principle of maximum entropy -- Part II Fundamentals of Classical Statistical Thermodynamics -- The microscopic entropy -- The Boltzmann distribution -- The canonical distribution -- The canonical ensemble -- Non-interacting and interacting systems -- Part III Application of Classical Statistical Thermodynamics -- State sum (partition function) for non-interacting systems -- Application to ideal gases of polyatomic molecules -- Chemical equilibria and kinetics -- Application to solid bodies -- Application to 2-level systems: spin systems -- Spatial distributions -- Thermodynamics of Real Gases, Liquids and Polymers -- Part IV Quantum statistics and the electronic structure of molecules -- Quantum Statistics -- Electron densities and electron correlations -- Wave function based methods -- Density Functional Theory (DFT) -- Non-covalent interactions. |
| Contained By: |
Springer Nature eBook |
| Subject: |
Statistical thermodynamics. - |
| Online resource: |
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54994-6 |
| ISBN: |
9783031549946 |