Both a comprehensive overview and a treatment at the appropriate level of detail, this textbook explains thermodynamics and generalizes the subject so it can be applied to small nano- or biosystems, arbitrarily far from or close to equilibrium. In addition, nonequilibrium free energy theorems are covered with a rigorous exposition of each one. Throughout, the authors stress the physical concepts along with the mathematical derivations. For researchers and students in physics, chemistry, materials science and molecular biology, this is a useful text for postgraduate courses in statistical mechanics, thermodynamics and molecular simulations, while equally serving as a reference for university teachers and researchers in these fields.
| ISBN: | 9783527410736 |
| Publication date: | 1st June 2016 |
| Author: | Denis James Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Evans, Debra Joy Griffith University, Brisbane, Aus Searles |
| Publisher: | Blackwell Verlag GmbH an imprint of Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 224 pages |
| Genres: |
Thermodynamics and heat Mathematical physics Probability and statistics |