Overview
- Offers a highly pedagogical and very thorough introduction to statistical thermodynamics Provides an in-depth examination of the van der Waals gas Contains many problems and a large number of solved examples Derives all the important formulae meticulously and explicitly, without mathematical short cuts Explains also the needed mathematics
- Provides alternative solutions to problems and second equivalent explanations of important physical concepts Provides extensive coverage that enables instructors to tailor their syllabus to match the class profile
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Graduate Texts in Physics (GTP)
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“Tahir-Kheli … is to be commended for covering a wide array of thermodynamics topics ranging from classical to statistical subjects. … He engages the reader with many well-stated exercises followed by detailed solutions. … a must for science and engineering graduate students engaged in theoretical and experimental thermodynamics and statistical mechanics research; it solidly provides a wide range of relationships that may be pivotal in that field and other related areas such as biophysics and bioengineering. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students through professionals.” (R. N. Laoulache, Choice, Vol. 50 (7), March, 2013)Authors and Affiliations
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Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania: 1962 - 1964.
Fellow American Physical Society
EMPLOYMENT:
Senior Scientific Officer and Adviser to the Chairman,
Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, 1964-66.
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY, Philadelphia, PA. :
Assistant Professor of Physics: 1966-1968
Associate Professor of Physics: 1968-1971
Professor of Physics: 1971 to present
Chairman Department of Physics: July, 1990 to August, 1995.
Other relevant employment:
United Kingdom Atomic Energy Research Establishment Fellow at Harwell, U.K., Summer 1962; August and September, 1964.
Professeur d'echange, Faculte des Sciences, Orsay, Universite de Paris - 1971.
Visiting Professor, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil -Summer, 1973; December and January, 1974
Visiting Professor, Federal University of Alagoas, Maceio, Brazil - 1980.
Senior Scientific Consultant to the U.N. Development Program - 1981.
On seven different occasions---that is: Spring, 1970; Summers: 1977; 1979; 1981; 1982; 1985; 1986---appointed as:
Research Leader, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy’
NATO Senior Visiting Fellow, Oxford University - 1974.
United Kingdom Science Research Council Visiting Scientist, Oxford University - Summers: 1975, 1978, and 1980.
National Science Foundation of Brazil (called CNPq) Senior Visiting Scientist - December, January, 1976.
Senior Visiting Scientist, Polish Academy of Science, Poland – 1976.
United States National Academy and the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences, Senior Visiting Fellow at the Institute Stefan in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia - Summer 1976.
Fellow, Kyoto University Foundation, Kyoto, Japan - 1980.
(British)Royal Society Visiting Professor, Oxford University - Summers 1983 and 1984.
Visiting Scientist, Max Planck Institute, Munich, Germany -Summer 1985.
Senior Visiting Scientist, Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France (July-Dec., 1989).
Senior Visiting Scientist, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Helsinki, Finland (August, 1992).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: General and Statistical Thermodynamics
Authors: Raza Tahir-Kheli
Series Title: Graduate Texts in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21481-3
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-50774-2Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-21481-3Published: 27 October 2011
Series ISSN: 1868-4513
Series E-ISSN: 1868-4521
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 677
Number of Illustrations: 61 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Thermodynamics, Complex Systems, Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Mathematical Methods in Physics, Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems