STATISTICAL THERMODYNAMICS - AN INTRODUCTION

H. J. G. Hayman, Statistical Thermodynamics An Introduction to its Foundations , Elsevier, London, 1967. 

For interesting discussions of the laws of thermodynamics, see J. R. Goates and J. B. Ott, Chemical Thermodynamics An Introduction, Harcourt Brace. Jovanovich, Inc., New York, 1971 R. Battino and S. E. Wood, Thermodynamics An Introduction, Academic Press, New York, 1968 P. A. Rock. Chemical Thermodynamics, University Science Books, Mill Valley, California, 1983 H. A. Bent. The Second Law An Introduction to Classical and Statistical Thermodynamics, Oxford University Press, New York, 1965. 

John H. Knox, Molecular Thermodynamics An Introduction to Statistical Mechanics for Chemists, Interscience, New York, 1971. 

Source "RA Alberty and RJ Silbe>, Physical Chemistry, 1st edition, Wiley, New York, 1992 Data are from M Chase et al. JANAF Thermochemical Tables, J Phys Chem Ref Data 14, Supplement 1 (1985) Knox, Molecular Thermodynamics an Introduction to Statistical Mechanics for Chemists, Re edition, New York, Wiley, 1978 RS Berry, SA Rice and J Ross, with the assistance of GP Fl nn and JN Kushick, Physical Chemistry, Wiley, New York, 1980. 

Yourgrau, W., van der Merwe, A., and Raw, G. (1966). Treatise on Irreversible and Statistical Thermophysics, An Introduction to Non-classical Thermodynamics, Macmillan, New York. 

Hill, T.L. An Introduction to Statistical Thermodynamics Addison-Wesley Reading, Mass., I960 p 60. 

F. W. Sears, An Introduction to Thermodynamics, The Kinetic Theory of Gases, and Statistical Mechanics, 2nd edn., Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1966. 

Hill, T. L., An Introduction to Statistical Thermodynamics, Dover New York, 1986... 

Hill, T. L., 1960, An Introduction to Statistical Thermodynamics, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass. Hill, T. L., 1985, Cooperativity Theory in Biochemistry, Steady State and Equilibrium Systems, Springer-Verlag, New York. 

There are other topics that might be considered, such as solid state theory and classical statistical mechanics. You must decide how much time to spend on each of your chosen topics. You can identify subtopics that you might omit or to which you can give only an introduction. One of the difficult decisions involves how much to teach about your own research area. You are obviously excited about this area, and will be tempted to spend too much class time on it. Another difficult decision is how much time to spend on topics of current interest such as nanomaterials and environmental chemistry. Your decisions should be guided by the composition of your class. If the class has a lot of premedical students and biochemistry majors in it, they are probably well served by a thorough treatment of thermodynamics and dynamics, and perhaps less well served by a thorough treatment of quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics. If the class is mostly composed of future chemistry graduate students, quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics are more important. 

Hill, T. L. An introduction to statistical thermodynamics. Chap. 13. Reading Addison-Wesley 1960. 

AN INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICAL THERMODYNAMICS, Terrell L. Hill. Excellent basic text offers wide-ranging coverage of quantum statistical mechanics, systems of interacting molecules, quantum statistics, more. 523pp. 55 x 85. 65242-4 Pa. 10.95... 

States of Matter, David L. Goodstcin. (64927-X) 9.95 An Introduction to Statistical Thermodynamics, Terrell L. Hill. (65242-4) 10.95... 

Interested readers can find an introduction to statistical thermodynamics, with derivations of the statistical concepts used in this chapter, in Chapter 12. For deeper study of statistical mechanics and physical chemistry a number of excellent texts are available. See for example the texts on statistical mechanics of Hill [86] and Pathria [156] and the comprehensive physical chemistry text of McQuarrie and Simon... 

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