Preface 1.The Nature of Thermodynamics 2.Equations of State 3.The First Law of Thermodynamics 4.Applications of the First Law 5.Consequences of the First Law 6.The Second Law of Thermodynamics 7.Applications of the Second Law 8.Thermodynamic Potentials 9.The Chemical Potential and Open 10.TheThird Law of Thermodynamics 11.The Kinetic Theory of Gases 12.StatisticaIThermodynamics 13.Classical and Quantum Statistics 14.The Classical Statistical Treatment of an Ideal Gas 15.The Heat Capacity of a Diatomic Gas 16.The Heat Capacity of a Solid 17.The Thermodynamics of Magnetism 18.Bose-Einstein Gases 19.Fermi-Dirac Gases 20.Information Theory Appendices Bibliography Answers to selected problems Index