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  1. Chapter 1: Basic Concepts
  2. Chapter 2: The First Law of Thermodynamics
  3. Chapter 3: The Second Law of Thermodynamics
  4. Chapter 4: The Third Law of Thermodynamics
  5. Chapter 5: Thermodynamic Potentials and Equilibrium
  6. Chapter 6: Thermodynamic Relations and Processes
  7. Chapter 7: Classical Statistical Mechanics
  8. Chapter 8: Quantum Statistical Mechanics
  9. Chapter 9: The Carathéodory principle
  10. Chapter 10: Entropy and Information
  11. Bibliography

Bibliography

Some useful reference books are:

  1. H.B. Callen, Thermodynamics and an Introduction to Thermostatistics (John Wiley & Sons, 1985)

  2. D. Chandler, Introduction to Modern Statistical Mechanics (Oxford University Press, 1987)

  3. W.Greiner, L. Neise and H. Stöcker, Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (Springer, 1995)

  4. K. Huang, Statistical Mechanics (Joh Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1987)

  5. R. Kubo, Thermodynamics (North-Holland Publishing Co., 1968)

  6. F. Reif, Fundamentals of Statistical and Thermal Physics (McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1965)

  7. D.V. Schroeder, An Introduction to Thermal Physics (Addison Wesley Longman, 2000)

  8. M.W. Zemansky and R.H. Dittman, Heat and Thermodynamics (7th Ed.) (The McGraw-Hill Book Companies, Inc., 1997)

The book by Chandrasekhar, referred to in chapter 9, is

S. Chandrasekhar, An Introduction to the Study of Stellar Structure (Dover Publications, Inc., 1967)

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