TY - BOOK AU - Kittel, Charles. AU - Kroemer, Herbert. TI - Thermal physics SN - 9780716710882 (hb.) U1 - 536.7 PY - 1980/// CY - San Francisco PB - W. H. Freeman KW - Statistical thermodynamics KW - Thermodynamics KW - physical systems N2 - For upper-division courses in thermodynamics or statistical mechanics, Kittel and Kroemer offers a modern approach to thermal physics that is based on the idea that all physical systems can be described in terms of their discrete quantum states, rather than drawing on 19th-century classical mechanics concepts ER -