Thermal Physics Tutorials with Python Simulations
- Length: 224 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: CRC Press
- Publication Date: 2023-03-14
- ISBN-10: 1032257563
- ISBN-13: 9781032257563
- Sales Rank: #0 (See Top 100 Books)
This book provides an accessible introduction to thermal physics with computational approaches that complement the traditional mathematical treatments of classical thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. It guides readers through visualizations and simulations in the Python programming language, helping them to develop their own technical computing skills (including numerical and symbolic calculations, optimizations, recursive operations, and visualizations). Python is a highly readable and practical programming language, making this book appropriate for students without extensive programming experience.
This book may serve as a thermal physics textbook for a semester-long undergraduate thermal physics course or may be used as a tutorial on scientific computing with focused examples from thermal physics. This book will also appeal to engineering students studying intermediate-level thermodynamics as well as computer science students looking to understand how to apply their computer programming skills to science.
Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Preface CHAPTER 1: Calculating π 1.1. ESTIMATING π WITH A POLYGON 1.2. ESTIMATING π WITH RANDOM DOTS SECTION I: Classical Thermodynamics CHAPTER 2: Kinetic Theory of Gas 2.1. GETTING STARTED 2.2. DERIVATION OF THE IDEAL GAS LAW 2.3. SAMPLE CALCULATION 2.4. FURTHER EXPLORATIONS 2.5. TEMPERATURE CHAPTER 3: Velocity Distribution 3.1. PARTICLE COLLISION 3.2. ONE-DIMENSIONAL EXAMPLE 3.3. MULTIPLE SOLUTIONS 3.4. FINDING SOLUTIONS WITH CODE 3.5. DISTRIBUTION OF ENERGY 3.6. DISTRIBUTION OF ENERGY AFTER MANY, MANY COLLISION EVENTS 3.7. DISTRIBUTION OF SPEED AFTER MANY, MANY COLLISION EVENTS 3.8. NOTE ON A MORE AMBITIOUS CODING PROJECT Chapter 4: Thermal Processes 4.1. STATE AND PROCESS 4.2. PLOTTING AND NUMERICAL INTEGRATION 4.3. PV DIAGRAM 4.4. ADIABATIC PROCESS 4.5. PROOF OF PVY = CONSTANT FOR AN ADIABAT OF IDEAL GAS 4.6. CARNOT CYCLE SECTION II: Statistical Mechanics Chapter 5: Premise of Statistical Mechanics 5.1. ANALOGY: WEALTH DISTRIBUTION 5.2. MATHEMATICAL NOTATIONS 5.3. LISTING PERMUTATIONS 5.4. VISUALIZATION 5.5. COUNTING EXERCISE 5.6. CODE FOR ENUMERATING ALL POSSIBILITIES (VERSION 1) 5.7. CODE FOR ENUMERATING ALL POSSIBILITIES (VERSION 2) 5.8. BOLTZMANN DISTRIBUTION 5.9. MATH: LAGRANGE MULTIPLIER METHOD 5.10. MATH: STIRLING'S APPROXIMATION 5.11. BACK TO THE BOLTZMANN DISTRIBUTION Chapter 6: Revisiting Ideal Gas 6.1. A LITTLE BIT OF QUANTUM MECHANICS 6.2. DEGENERACY 6.3. PARTITION FUNCTION 6.4. AVERAGE ENERGY OF AN IDEAL GAS 6.5. VISUALIZING ENERGY LEVELS WITH DEGENERACY Chapter 7: Revisiting Thermal Processes 7.1. REVIEW 7.2. THERMAL PROCESSES 7.3. CHECK Chapter 8: Entropy, Temperature, Energy, and Other Potentials 8.1. ENTROPY 8.2. LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS 8.3. TEMPERATURE AS A RATIO OF CHANGES IN ENERGY AND ENTROPY 8.4. IDENTIFYING B = 1/kBT 8.5. MATH: VOLUME OF A SPHERE 8.6. ENTROPY OF IDEAL GAS 8.7. ENTROPY OF IDEAL GAS, AGAIN 8.8. MOTIVATION FOR OTHER METRICS OF A THERMODYNAMIC SYSTEM 8.9. FOUR THERMODYNAMIC POTENTIALS: U,H, F,G 8.10. THERMODYNAMIC RELATIONS SECTION III: Examples Chapter 9: Two-State System 9.1. DYNAMIC CASE 9.2. EQUILIBRIUM POTENTIAL 9.3. ACTION POTENTIAL 9.4. DIODE Chapter 10: Specific Heat 10.1. DEFINITION OF SPECIFIC HEAT 10.2. TWO-STATE SYSTEM 10.3. SIMPLE HARMONIC OSCILLATOR (SHO) 10.4. TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE OF ENERGY AND SPECIFIC HEAT 10.5. EINSTEIN MODEL OF SOLID Chapter 11: Random and Guided Walks 11.1. ONE-DIMENSIONAL RANDOM WALK 11.2. TWO-DIMENSIONAL RANDOM WALK 11.3. A TANGENT 11.4. GUIDED RANDOM WALKS Appendix APPENDIX A: GETTING STARTED WITH PYTHON APPENDIX B: PYTHON PROGRAMMING BASICS APPENDIX C: PLOTS APPENDIX D: COLORS APPENDIX E: ANIMATION Epilogue Index
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