Lectures On The Mechanical Foundations Of Thermodynamics 2nd Edition Michele Campisi by Michele Campisi 9783031570445, 3031570448 instant download after payment.

how a thermodynamic framework can be systematically constructed from Hamilto- 

nian dynamics. This fundamental question has a long and interesting history, dating 

back to seminal work by Boltzmann, Gibbs, and Hertz at the turn of the twentieth 

century, and it has regained critical importance with recent applications of ther- 

mostatistical concepts to small systems. While many modern textbooks adopt an 

axiomatic approach that starts from an abstract set of thermodynamic postulates, the 

constructive “bottom-up” approach pursued in this monograph shows how a reduced 

thermodynamic description emerges naturally by linking dynamical time averages 

with statistical ensemble averages through the ergodicity hypothesis.