This paper describes a new statistical treatment of ordering effects in mixtures of spherical molecules, based on a general expansion of the Helmholtz free-energy function about the condition of ...

Statistical mechanics provides the framework for deriving macroscopic thermodynamic properties from the microscopic characteristics of matter. Central to this discipline is the concept of entropy, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper considers the problem of causal explanation in classical and statistical thermodynamics. It is argued that the irreversibility of ...

Thermodynamics and statistical physics provide a unified framework linking the macroscopic laws of energy, work, and entropy to the microscopic motions of particles. Thermodynamics, rooted in the laws ...

Classical and statistical thermodynamics; entropy and energy functions in liquid and solid solutions and their applications to phase equilibria. Lectures, problem solving. A student who has completed ...

Equations of state in three centuries. What have we learned and some future expectations. Prausnitz together with Buck, Fredenslund and Hala stated in 1983 (Fluid Phase Equilibria, 14: 403-408): ”At ...

Elementary classical thermodynamics, applications of the first law and the second laws of thermodynamics to power and refrigeration cycles, mixtures and solutions, thermodynamic relations, chemical ...

Statistical mechanics is one of the pillars of modern physics. Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906) and Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839–1903) were its primary formulators. They both worked to establish a bridge ...