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Statistical Physics I by Eric Poisson

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Statistical Physics I
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Publisher: University of Guelph
Number of pages: 97

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From the table of contents: Thermodynamic systems and the zeroth law; Transformations and the first law; Heat engines and the second law; Entropy and the third law; Thermodynamic potentials; Thermodynamics of magnetic systems.

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