Heat and Thermodynamics

This respected text deals with large-scale, easily known thermal phenomena and then proceeds to small-scale, less accessible phenomena. The wide range of mathematics used in Dittman and Zemansky’s text simultaneously challenges students who have completed a course in impartial differential calculus without alienating those students who have only taken a calculus-based general physics course. Examples of calculations are presented shortly after important formulas are derived. Students see the solutions of problems related to the formulas. Actual thermodynamic experiments are explained in detail. The student sees the applicability of abstract thermodynamic concepts and formulas to real situations.

PART ONE: Fundamental Concepts 

1 1 Temperature and the Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics 

2 Simple Thermodynamic Systems 

3 Work 

4 Heat and the First Law of Thermodynamics 

5 Ideal Gas 

6 The Second Law of Thermodynamics 

7 The Carnot Cycle and the Thermodynamic Temperature Scale 

8 Entropy 

9 Pure Substances 

10 Mathematical Methods 

11 Open Systems 

PART TWO: Applications of Fundamental Concepts 

12 Statistical Mechanics 

13 Thermal Properties of Solids 

14 Critical Phenomena; Higher-Order Phase Transitions 

15 Chemical Equilibrium 

16 Ideal-Gas Reactions 

17 Heterogeneous Systems