Thermal Physics

Charles Kittel; Herbert Kroemer
Bedford-St. Martin's Press 3pl
9780716710882
0-7167-1088-9

CONGRATULATIONS TO HERBERT KROEMER, 2000 NOBEL LAUREATE FOR PHYSICS For upper-division courses in thermodynamics or statistical mechanics, Kittel and Kroemer offers a modern approach to thermal physics.

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that is based on the idea that all physical systems can be described in terms of their discrete quantum states, rather than drawing on 19th-century classical mechanics concepts.