ENTROPY AND INFORMATION THEORY
PHASE TRANSITIONS AND CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM INTRODUCTION TO PHASES EQUILIBRIUM CONDITIONS ISOLATED SYSTEM A SYSTEM IN CONTACT WITH A HEAT AND WORK RESERVOIR PHASE EQUILIBRIUM PHASE DIAGRAM OF WATER VAPOR PRESSURE OF AN IDEAL GAS FROM THE EQUATION OF STATE TO A PHASE TRANSITION STABLE EQUILIBRIUM REQUIREMENTS BACK TO OUR PHASE TRANSITION DENSITY FLUCTUATIONS DIFFERENT PHASES AS DIFFERENT SUBSTANCES SYSTEMS WITH MANY COMPONENTS GIBBS–DUHEM RELATION CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM BETWEEN IDEAL GASES SUMMARY PROBLEMS REFERENCES QUANTUM STATISTICS GRAND CANONICAL ENSEMBLE A SYSTEM IN CONTACT WITH A PARTICLE RESERVOIR CONNECTING ?TO THERMODYNAMICS CLASSICAL VS QUANTUM STATISTICS SYMMETRY REQUIREMENTS THE OCCUPATION NUMBER MAXWELL–BOLTZMANN DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION PHOTON DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION BOSE–EINSTEIN STATISTICS FERMI–DIRAC STATISTICS CLASSICAL LIMIT FROM QUANTUM STATES TO CLASSICAL PHASE SPACE QUANTUM PARTITION FUNCTION IN THE CLASSICAL LIMIT VAPOR PRESSURE OF A SOLID GENERAL EXPRESSION FOR THE VAPOR PRESSURE VAPOR PRESSURE OF A SOLID IN THE EINSTEIN MODEL PARTITION FUNCTION OF IDEAL POLYATOMIC MOLECULES TRANSLATIONAL MOTION OF THE CENTER OF MASS ELECTRONIC STATES ROTATION VIBRATION MOLAR SPECIFIC HEAT OF A DIATOMIC MOLECULE REFERENCE APPLICATIONS OF QUANTUM STATISTICS BLACKBODY RADIATION FROM E&M TO PHOTONS PHOTON GAS RADIATION PRESSURE RADIATION FROM A HOT OBJECT BOSE–EINSTEIN CONDENSATION FERMI GAS BLACK HOLE THERMODYNAMICS BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO GENERAL RELATIVITY GEOMETRIZED UNITS BLACK HOLES HAWKING RADIATION BLACK HOLE HEAT ENGINE THE MATH OF BLACK HOLE THERMODYNAMICS HEAT CAPACITY OF A BLACK HOLE