The book develops the tools to describe equilibrium thermal properties and near-equilibrium processes of finite size particles, with the emphasis on gas phase particles. Numerous examples illustrate the theory. The text offers recipes for solving commonly encountered problems arising in the description of nanophase gas particles. Each chapter contains exercises spanning from easy to advance and four appendices provide additional useful information.
This revised and updated third edition provides the reader with new sections, a new chapter on kinetic energy distributions, a new appendix on probability distributions and a wealth of exercises.

Extensively revised and updated new edition Explores the limits of the mathematical approximations and demonstrates the power of the statistical physics method Includes fundamental results, applications, illustrative examples, and four useful appendices

Autorentext

Klavs Hansen graduated from the Niels Bohr Institute with a Ph.D. in experimental cluster physics in 1991. He has worked in nanoscience in several countries and since 2016 in Tianjin, China. He has co-authored 200 peer reviewed papers, with a focus on dynamics and thermodynamics of finite size systems.

Inhalt

Introduction.- The relation between classical and quantum statistics.- Microcanonical temperature.- Thermal properties of vibrations.- Rate constants for emission of atoms and electrons.- Kinetic energy release distributions in unimolecular reactions.- Radiation.- The evaporative ensemble.- Abundance distributions; large scale features.- Molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations.- Thermal properties of valence electrons.- Hot electron reactions.- He droplets.- Phase transitions.- A Additional reading.- B Constants of nature and conversion factors.- C Mathematical help.- D Probability distributions.- Index.