Concepts in Thermal Physics (Paperback) (封面有摺痕,不影響閱讀)

An understanding of thermal physics is crucial to much of modern physics, chemistry and engineering. This book provides a modern introduction to the main principles that are foundational to thermal physics, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. The key concepts are carefully presented in a clear way, and new ideas are illustrated with copious worked examples as well as a description of the historical background to their discovery. Applications are presented to subjects as diverse as stellar astrophysics, information and communication theory, condensed matter physics and climate change. Each chapter concludes with detailed exercises.

The second edition of this popular textbook maintains the structure and lively style of the first edition but extends its coverage of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics to include several new topics, including osmosis, diffusion problems, Bayes theorem, radiative transfer, the Ising model and Monte Carlo methods. New examples and exercises have been added throughout.

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熱物理學的理解對於現代物理學、化學和工程學至關重要。本書提供了對於熱物理學、熱力學和統計力學的基本原理的現代介紹。關鍵概念以清晰的方式仔細呈現，並通過大量的實例和對其發現的歷史背景的描述來說明新的想法。應用範圍涵蓋了恆星天體物理學、信息和通信理論、凝聚態物理學和氣候變化等多個領域。每章結束時都有詳細的練習題。

這本受歡迎教科書的第二版保持了第一版的結構和生動風格，但在熱力學和統計力學的基礎上增加了幾個新主題，包括滲透、擴散問題、貝葉斯定理、輻射傳輸、伊辛模型和蒙特卡羅方法。全書增加了新的例子和練習題。

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Stephen Blundell did his undergraduate degree in Physics and Theoretical Physics at Peterhouse, Cambridge and his Ph. D. in the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge. He moved to the Clarendon Laboratory at Oxford to take up an SERC research fellowship, followed by a Junior Research Fellowship at Merton College, where he began research in organic magnets and superconductors using muon-spin rotation. In 1997 he was appointed to a University Lectureship in the Physics Department and a Tutorial Fellowship at Mansfield College, Oxford, and was subsequently promoted to Reader and then Professor. He was a joint winner of the Daiwa-Adrian Prize in 1999 for his work on organic magnets.

Katherine Blundell did her undergraduate degree in Physics and Theoretical Physics at New Hall College, Cambridge and her Ph. D. in the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge. She moved to Oxford University Astrophysics department, holding a Junior Research Fellowship at Balliol College, an 1851 Research Fellowship, before taking up a Royal Society University Research Fellowship. Her research concentrates on radio galaxies and quasars. In 2005 she won a Leverhulme prize for her research, and became a Professor of Astrophysics in 2008.

Stephen Blundell在劍橋大學Peterhouse學院修讀物理學和理論物理學的學士學位，並在劍橋大學Cavendish實驗室獲得博士學位。他後來轉到牛津大學Clarendon實驗室擔任SERC研究員，接著在Merton學院擔任初級研究員，開始進行有機磁體和超導體的研究，並使用muon自旋旋轉技術。1997年，他被任命為牛津大學物理系的大學講師和Mansfield學院的導師，後來晉升為讀者，再晉升為教授。他因其在有機磁體研究方面的工作，於1999年與他人共同獲得了Daiwa-Adrian獎。

Katherine Blundell在劍橋大學New Hall學院修讀物理學和理論物理學的學士學位，並在劍橋大學Cavendish實驗室獲得博士學位。她後來轉到牛津大學天體物理學系，在Balliol學院擔任初級研究員，並獲得1851 Research Fellowship，然後獲得皇家學會大學研究員職位。她的研究專注於射電星系和類星體。2005年，她因其研究工作獲得了Leverhulme獎，並於2008年成為天體物理學教授。