Extensively revised edition of a much-respected work examines thermodynamics of irreversible processes, general principles of statistical thermodynamics, assemblies of noninteracting structureless particles, and statistical theory. 1966 edition.
Unabridged, corrected Dover republication of the edition published by The Macmillan Co., New York, 1966.

Table of Contents for Treatise on Irreversible and Statistical Thermodynamics: An Introduction to Nonclassical Thermodynamics

Glossary of Symbols and physical Constants
1. THERMODYNAMICS OF IRREVERSIBLE PROCESSES
1-1. Some Concepts of First-Order Thermodynamics
1-2. Entropy Balance and Entropy Production
1-3. "Forces, Fluxes, and Phenomenological Equations "
1-4. The Onsager Recipocity Theorem
Fluctuation Theory
Microscopic Reversibility
Regression of Flucuations
1-5. Applications of Onsager's Theorem to Thernoeletric Phenomena
1-6. Stationary States and Biological Systems
2. GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF STATISTICAL THERMODYNAMICS
2-1. The Statistics of µ-Space and ?-Space
2-2. Liouville's Theorem
2-3. The Ergodic Problem
2-4. Phase Averages and the Canonical Distribution
2-5. The Invalidation of Classical Concepts
2-6. Some Further Quantum-Mechanical Aspects
2-7. The Gibbs Ensemble Method in Quantum Mechanics
2-8. H-Theorm and Quantum-Mechanical Microcanonical Ensemble
2-9. "Classical H-Theorem, Entropy, and Thermodynamic Probability"
2-10. Quantum-Mechanical Canonical Ensemble
2-11. Quantum-Mechanical Grand Canonical Ensemble
3. ASSEMBLIES OF NONINTERACTING STUCTURELESS PARTICLES
3-1. The Quantum-Mechanical Ideal Gas
3-2. Dilute Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac Gases
3-3. Highly Degenerate Fermi-Dirac Gas
3-4. Thermodynamic Functions of a Fermi-Dirac Gas
3-5. Application of Fermi-Dirac Statistics to Electrons in Metals
3-6. Arbitrarily Degenerate Bose-Einstein Ideal Gas
3-7. "Properties of a Bose-Einstein Gas as Functions of T, V, N"
3-8. Behavior of a Bose-Einstein Gas near the Condensation Temperature
3-9. Statistics of a Photon Gas
3-10. Blackbody Radiation and the Laws of Planck and Stefan
3-11. Historical Postscript to Planck's Radiation Law
4. STATISTICAL THEORY AND MORE COMPLEX PHYSICAL SYSTEMS
4-1. Low-Density Ideal Molecular Gases
4-2. Thermodynamic Properties of Monatomic Ideal Gases
4-3. Separation of Degrees of Freedom in a Diatomic Molecule
4-4. Thermodynamic Properties of Diatomic Ideal Gases
4-5. Normal Vibrations of Monatomic Crystalline Solids
4-6. Heat-Capacity Theories of Einstein and Debye
4-7. Lattice Theory of Born and von Kármán and Extensions
4-8. Epilogue: Some Features of Interacting Particle Systems
Appendix: The Gibbs Entropy Paradox
Problems
Index

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