TY - BOOK AU - Sprackling, Michael. TI - Thermal physics / SN - 9780333536582 U1 - 541.36 22 PY - 1991///. CY - London : PB - Macmillan education ltd., KW - Heat N1 - Contents; 1. What is thermal physics? 2. Systems and processes 3. Temperature 4. First law of thermodynamics 5. Some simple thermodynamic systems 6. Some properties of gases 7. The second law of thermodynamics 8. Entropy 9. The ideologies and thermodynamic temperature 10. Thermodynamic potential functions 11. Heat capacity 12. The application of thermodynamics to some simple systems 13. Equations of state 14. Phase changes 15. The third law of thermodynamics 16. The application of thermodynamics to some irreversible processes 17. A simple kinetic theory of gases 18. Heat transfer ; Includes bibliographical references and index. ER -