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Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Dedication 6 Table of Contents 8 Preface 14 Chapter 1: Introduction 20 Chapter 2: Temperature, Work, and Heat 24 2.1 Thermal Equilibrium and the Zero’th Law of Thermodynamics 24 2.2 Empirical Temperature 25 2.3 Work and Heat; the First Law of Thermodynamics 31 2.4 Reversible and Irreversible Processes 36 2.5 Magnetic Work 37 2.6 Enthalpy 41 2.7 Heat Capacity 42 2.8 Envoi 44 2.9 Problems 45 Chapter 3: Macrostates and Microstates 50 3.1 Macrosystems, Microsystems, and Multiplicity 50 3.2 The Spin 1/2 Magnet 52 3.3 Multiplicity and Disorder 58 3.4 Envoi: Multiplicity in Other Systems 61 3.5 Problems 61 Chapter 4: Entropy, Free Energy, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics 64 4.1 The Condition for Thermal Equilibrium 64 4.2 Entropy and the Second Law 66 4.3 Absolute Temperature 68 4.4 Negative Temperature 70 4.5 Entropy and Heat: Isentropic and Isothermal Processes 71 4.6 Entropy of Mixing 74 4.7 Free Energy 75 4.8 The Gibbs-Helmholtz Equation 78 4.9 Free Enthalpy (Gibbs Free Energy) 79 4.10 Adiabatic Processes 82 4.11 Irreversible Adiathermal Processes: Joule-Thomson Expansion and Enthalpy Conservation 83 4.12 The Third Law of Thermody

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M. D. Sturge
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