|  collision operator      509 
  collision operator, explicit expression for      525 Absolute temperature      see "Temperature absolute"
 Absorptivity      382
 Accessible states      53 87
 Adiabatic demagnetization      445—451
 Adiabatic expansion of ideal gas      158—159
 Adiabatic isolation      68
 Adsorbed molecules in equilibrium with a gas      398
 Atmospheres, law of      211
 Be      See "Bose—Einstein statistics"
 Binomial distribution      10
 Black body      386
 Black body, radiation by      386—383
 Boltzmann      4 635
 Boltzmann constant      137
 Boltzmann equation      525
 Boltzmann equation in absence of collisions      500
 Boltzmann equation in presence of collisions      509
 Boltzmann equation in presence of collisions in complete form      525
 Boltzmann equation in presence of collisions in complete form, linearized      536
 Boltzmann equation in presence of collisions in complete form, solution by moments      536—537
 Boltzmann equation in presence of collisions in complete form, solution by variational principle      537—539
 Boltzmann equation in presence of collisions with relaxation time approximation      509
 Boltzmann factor      205
 Boltzmann factor, derivation of      202—204
 Bose — Einstein statistics      346—349
 Bose — Einstein statistics and counting of states      337—338
 Bose — Einstein statistics and symmetry requirements      332
 Bose — Einstein statistics, distribution function for      342 348
 Bose — Einstein statistics, fluctuation in particle numbers      349
 Bose — Einstein statistics, nature of ground state      338
 Bose — Einstein statistics, partition function for      348
 Bosons      332
 Boyle's law      134
 Brillouin function      260
 Brownian motion      251 560
 Brownian motion, Langevin equation      564
 Brownian motion, mean velocity increment      571 602
 Brownian motion, mean-square displacement      567 575—577
 Brownian motion, mean-square velocity increment      575 602
 Brownian motion, probability distribution for velocity      581
 Calorie      141
 Calorimetry      see "Heat measurement
 Canonical distribution      205
 Canonical distribution, calculation of mean values      212—214
 Canonical distribution, derivation by combinatorial argument      229—231
 Carnot      3
 Carnot engine      188—190
 Celsius temperature scale      137
 Center-of-mass motion      517—519
 Central limit theorem      39
 Chemical equilibrium      317—325
 Chemical equilibrium, between ideal gases      319—325
 Chemical equilibrium, equilibrium constant      322—324
 Chemical equilibrium, general equilibrium conditions for      317—319
 Chemical equilibrium, law of mass action      322—324
 Chemical equilibrium, standard free energy change      322
 chemical potential      313
 Chemical potential and Fermi energy for FD gas      388
 Chemical potential and Planck's constant      363
 Chemical potential of ideal gas      322
 Chemical potential, relation to Gibbs free energy      313—314
 Clausius      3
 Clausius — Clapeyron equation      304
 Clausius — Clapeyron equation and slope of melting curve      305
 Clausius — Clapeyron equation and vapor pressure      305—306
 Coefficient of linear expansion      195—196
 Coefficient of volume expansion      168
 Coefficient of volume expansion of ideal gas      169
 Coefficient of volume expansion, behavior as
  170 Cold, definition of      102
 Cold, relation to absolute temperature      106
 Collision probabilities      463—465 see
 Collision time      465
 Collision time, related to scattering cross section      460—470
 Compressibility      168
 Compressibility of ideal gas      169
 Compressibility, positive sign of      300
 Conservation equations of hydrodynamics      529—531
 Constraints      87—91
 Continuity, equation of      530
 Cooperative behavior      406
 Correlation function      570
 Correlation function for cross-correlation      597
 Correlation function of velocity in Brownian motion      576 602
 Correlation function, properties of      570—571
 Correlation time      562
 Critical point      198 305 311
 Critical point, fluctuations near      301
 Critical point, opalescence at      301
 Curie temperature      432
 Curie — Weiss law      433
 Curie's law      208
 Curie's law in general case      261
 Cyclic process      35 184
 D drift derivative operator      500
 Darwin — Fowler method      225n
 De Broglie relation      363
 Debye frequency      415
 Debye function      415
 Debye normal mode distribution      414
 Debye specific heat of solids      415
 Debye specific heat of solids in low temperature limit      416—417
 Debye temperature      415
 Debye theory of solids      411—418
 Degenerate gas      353
 Degrees Kelvin      136
 Degrees of freedom      51
 Delta function      614—615
 Delta function, integral representation of      617—618
 Delta symbol, Kronecker      616
 Density of states      61
 Density of states for a free particle in a box      358
 Density of states for ideal gas      63—66
 Density of states, effect of changing external parameters      112—114
 Density of states, general properties of      61 63
 Detailed balance and evaporation      400
 Detailed balance and Nyquist's formula      691—594
 Detailed balance and radiation by hot bodies      385—388
 Detailed balance conditions      550
 Detailed balance, microscopic discussion of      383—384
 Detailed balance, principle of      381—383
 Dewar      439
 Differential scattering cross section      see "Scattering cross section"
 Differentials, exact and inexact      79
 Diffusion      483—484
 Diffusion as a Random Walk      486—487
 Diffusion, coefficient for dilute gas      485
 Diffusion, coefficient for dilute gas, related to viscosity      486
 Diffusion, coefficient for self-diffusion      484
 Diffusion, coefficient related to friction constant      567
 Diffusion, equation for concentration      484
 Diffusion, mean-square displacement in      486—488
 Diffusion, related to mobility      567
 Dirac delta function      see "Delta function"
 dispersion      13 see
 Dispersion for the random walk      16 34
 Dispersion of Gaussian distribution      24
 Dissociation energy of a molecule      372
 Dissociation of H atom      363—365
 Distribution function for molecules      263 495
 Doppler broadening      285
 Dulong and Petit law      254 411
 Efficiency of heat engine      188
 Effusion      273—278
 Einstein relation between diffusion and mobility      567 601
 Einstein temperature      255
 Einstein theory of specific heat of solids      254—256
 Elastic waves      412—414
 
 | Electrical conductivity      488 Electrical conductivity of charged particles in a dilute gas      486
 Electrical conductivity of charged particles in a dilute gas, calculation by momentum arguments      532—534 545—546
 Electrical conductivity of charged particles in a dilute gas, calculation in terms of
  504—506 Electrical conductivity of electrons in metals      506—507
 Electrochemical cell      167—198
 Electromagnetic radiation      see "Radiation"
 Electrons in metals      388—393
 Electrons in metals, paramagnetism of      401
 Electrons in metals, specific heat of      391—393 397
 Electrons in metals, thermal conductivity of      482—483
 Emissivity      382
 Energy fluctuation      109—110 213
 Energy fluctuation of ideal gas      242
 Engine, Carnot      188—186
 Engine, perfect      184—186
 Engine, quasi-static      188
 Ensemble      5
 Ensemble average      561 583
 Ensemble for system in uniform motion      227—229
 Ensemble for system with indefinite number of particles      225—227
 Ensemble, Canonical      205
 Ensemble, Grand Canonical      225—227
 Ensemble, microcanonical      202
 Enskog equation of change      527
 Enthalpy      162
 Enthalpy in throttling process      180
 Entropy and heat capacity      140—141
 Entropy and probability      123
 Entropy of ideal gas      160
 Entropy of mixing      243—244 282
 Entropy of monatomic ideal gas      245
 Entropy, additivity of      111 217
 Entropy, implications of third law      145—148
 Entropy, limiting behavior as
  119—121 Entropy, measurement of      142—143
 Entropy, related to absorbed heat      108 115 118
 Entropy, related to partition function      215
 Entropy, statistical definition of      99 110
 Entropy, thermodynamic calculation of      172
 Equation of state      124
 Equation of state for ideal classical gas      125
 Equation of state for slightly nonideal gas      422
 Equation of state, calculated from partition function      214
 Equation of state, Van der Waals      173
 Equation of state, virial expansion      183
 Equilibrium      54
 Equilibrium conditions between chemical components      317—391
 Equilibrium conditions between phases      301—306 315—317
 Equilibrium conditions for homogeneous substance      296—300
 Equilibrium conditions for isolated system      284—291
 Equilibrium conditions under conditions of constant T      291—294
 Equilibrium conditions under conditions of constant T and p      294—296
 Equilibrium constant      322—324
 Equilibrium constant, calculation from first principles      363—365
 Equilibrium constant, temperature dependence of      325
 Equilibrium, metastable      290
 Equipartition theorem      248
 Ergodic ensemble      584
 Ergodic ensemble, equality of ensemble end time average      585
 Error function      609—610
 Euler equation of hydrodynamics      531
 exchange interaction      428
 Exclusion principle      33
 Exclusion principle and exchange energy      428
 Exclusion principle and ground state of FD gas      338—339
 Exclusion principle, application to homonuclear molecules      371
 Extensive parameter      149
 External parameter      66
 FD      see "Fermi — Dirac statistics"
 Fermi energy      388 391
 Fermi function      389—390
 Fermi function, integrals involving      393—39
 Fermi momentum      390
 Fermi sphere      390
 Fermi temperature      391
 Fermi — Dirac statistics      350—351
 Fermi — Dirac statistics and conduction electrons in metals      388—393
 Fermi — Dirac statistics and counting of states      338
 Fermi — Dirac statistics and symmetry requirements      332—333
 Fermi — Dirac statistics, distribution function for      341 350
 Fermi — Dirac statistics, fluctuation in particle numbers      351
 Fermi — Dirac statistics, nature of ground state      339 390
 Fermi — Dirac statistics, partition function for      350
 fermions      333
 ferromagnetism      428—434
 Ferromagnetism and exchange interaction      428—429
 Ferromagnetism, Curie temperature for      432
 Ferromagnetism, Weiss molecular field theory of      430—434
 First law of thermodynamics      82 122
 Fluctuation of density      300—301
 Fluctuation of energy      109—110 213 242
 Fluctuation of energy of ideal gas      242
 Fluctuation of gas pressure      399
 Fluctuation of particle number      336—337
 Fluctuation of particle number for BE statistics      349
 Fluctuation of particle number for FD statistics      351
 Fluctuation of particle number for MB statistics      345
 Fluctuation of particle number for photons      346
 Fluctuation of volume      300
 Fluctuation, near critical point      301
 Fluctuation-dissipation theorem      572—573 603
 Fluctuation-dissipation theorem and Nyquist theorem      588—588
 Fluctuation-dissipation theorem, general case      597
 Flux of molecular quantities      495—497
 Flux of molecules      270—273
 Fokker — Planck equation      579
 Fokker — Planck equation, solution for Brownian motion      580—581
 Fourier analysis of random functions      582—583
 Free energy, Gibbs      164
 Free energy, Helmholtz      163
 Free energy, related to partition function      216
 Free expansion of an arbitrary gas      175—177
 Free expansion of an ideal gas      155
 Friction constant      563
 Friction constant, expressed in terms of fluctuating force      572
 Gamma function      608
 Gas constant      136
 Gasoline engine      200
 Gaussian distribution      21—24
 Gaussian distribution as general limiting case      37—40
 Gaussian distribution as limiting case of binomial distribution      17—21
 Gaussian integral      607
 Generalized force      75
 Geometric series, sum of      605—606
 Gibbs      3 4 635
 Gibbs free energy      164
 Gibbs paradox      243—245
 Gibbs — Duhem relation      315
 Grand canonical distribution      226
 Grand partition function      347
 Grueneisen constant      436
 H-theorem for dilute gas      546—547
 H-theorem, general case      624—626
 Harmonic oscillator, classical phase space for      55—56
 Harmonic oscillator, energy levels of      49
 Harmonic oscillator, mean thermal energy of      251—253
 Heat      67 73
 Heat bath      see "Heat reservoir"
 heat capacity      139—141 see
 Heat engines      184—190
 Heat pump      199
 Heat reservoir      107
 Heat, measurement of      131—133
 Helmholtz free energy      163
 Hot, definition of      102
 Hydrogen atom, thermal ionization of      363—365
 Hyperfine interaction      557
 Ideal gas in classical limit      64
 Ideal gas in classical limit, adiabatic processes      158—159
 
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