Download or read book Thermal Physics written by Charles Kittel and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1980-01-15 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONGRATULATIONS TO HERBERT KROEMER, 2000 NOBEL LAUREATE FOR PHYSICS 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.