Concepts in Thermal Physics

Professor Stephen J. Blundell Department of Physics Clarendon Laboratory University of Oxford Parks Road Oxford OX1 3PU Stephen Blundell did his undergraduate degree in Physics and Theoretical Physics at Peterhouse, Cambridge and his Ph. D. in the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge. He moved to the Clarendon Laboratory at Oxford to take up an SERC research fellowship, followed by a Junior Research Fellowship at Merton College, where he began research in organic magnets and superconductors using muon-spin rotation. In 1997 he was appointed to a University Lectureship in the Physics Department and a Tutorial Fellowship at Mansfield College, Oxford, and was subsequently promoted to Reader and then Professor. He was a joint winner of the Daiwa-Adrian Prize in 1999 for his work on organic magnets. Dr Katherine Blundell Department of Astrophysics Keble Road Oxford OX1 3RH Katherine Blundell did her undergraduate degree in Physics and Theoretical Physics at New Hall College, Cambridge and her Ph. D. in the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge. She moved to Oxford University Astrophysics department, holding a Junior Research Fellowship at Balliol College, an 1851 Research Fellowship, before taking up a Royal Society University Research Fellowship. Her research concentrates on radio galaxies and quasars. In 2005 she won a Leverhulme prize for her research.

PART I PRELIMINARIES; PART II KINETIC THEORY OF GASES; PART III TRANSPORT AND THERMAL DIFFUSION; PART IV THE FIRST LAW; PART V THE SECOND LAW; PART VI THERMODYNAMICS IN ACTION; PART VII STATISTICAL MECHANICS; PART VIII BEYOND THE IDEAL GAS; PART IX SPECIAL TOPICS; APPENDICES