Bibliography for Statistical

Thermodynamics

John W. Daily

The following annotated list of books related to thermodynamics is provided as a

guide and is not intended to be an exhaustive list of books on the subject.

Professor Daily’s Textbook

John W. Daily, Statistical Thermodynamics: An Engineering Ap-
proach (1). I wrote this book to match what I have been teaching
for forty-five years. It is an excellent companion to this set of
courses.
Classical Thermodynamics
Cengel and Boles, Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach,
8th Edition (2). The current gold standard in Mechanical Engi-
neering undergraduate texts.
Callen, H.B., Termodynamics, 2nd Ed. (3). A complete devel-
opment of deductive axiomatic approach to thermodynamics is
provided. Applications to chemical, electro-magnetic, and solid
systems are included. Some treatment of irreversible thermody-

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namics.
Fermi, E., Thermodynamics!(4). This paperback is notable pri-
marily because it has an accurate derivation of the inequality
δQ/T ≥ 0.
Gibbs, Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics in Collected
Works (5). Classic book from which all modern thermodynamics
flows.
Guggenheim, E.A., Thermodynamics, 5th Edition (6). This edi-
tion has been influenced by Callen. A good, short chapter on the
connections between statistical and macroscopic thermodynamics.
Stronger chemical emphasis than Callen.
Reynolds, W.C.and Perkins, H.C., Engineering Thermodynam-
ics (7). One of the classics for introductory courses in engineering
thermodynamics. Entropy is treated from a microscopic view-
point.
Zemansky, M.W., Heat and Thermodynamics, 5th Edition (8).
This is the classic introductory text to thermodynamics. A lucid
and rigorous presentation of the inductive physical approach to
thermodynamics, as formulated by Clausius and Kelvin, is pre-
sented.
Introductory Statistical Thermodynamics
Hill, T.L., Introduction to Statistical Thermodynamics (9). This
book was a standard for many years.
Incropera, F.P., Molecular Structure and Thermodynamics (10).
Strong physical basis for statistical thermodynamics, including
spectroscopy. Excellent presentation of quantum mechanics at a
level understandable to mechanical engineers.
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Knuth, E.L., Introduction to Statistical Thermodynamics (11).

This book provides a careful introduction to ensemble theory.
Reif, F., Fundamentals of Statistical and Thermal Physics (12).
Thermodynamics, statistical thermodynamics, and kinetic theory
are provided a unified treatment. Some topics are treated at a
more advanced level.
Laurendeau, N., Statistical Thermodynamics: Fundamentals and
Applications (13). A more recent, well written text. Focuses more
on classical statistics. Excellent chapters on spectroscopy.
More Advanced Statistical Mechanics and Applications
Hirschfelder, J.O., Curtiss, C.F., and Bird, R.B. Molecular Theory
of Gases and Liquids (14). This 1275 page book is a classic on
intermolecular forces and applications to theoretical prediction
of non-ideal gas behavior and transport properties. Commonly
referred to as ”HCB,” ”MTGL,” or ”The Great Green Bible.” It
has pretty much everything on the subject.
McQuarrie, D.A., Statistical Mechanics (15). An excellent book
with many modern developments at a higher level than we explore.
Quantum Mechanics
Pauling and Wilson, Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (16).
The standard chemistry oriented text on QM that is still easy to
read.
Shankar, Principles of Quantum Mechanics 2nd Ed. (17). Com-
monly used in first year graduate QM courses in Chemistry.
Cohen˙Tannoudji, Diu and Laloe, Quantum Mechanics, Voulmes
1&2 (18). More detailed that Shankar, Also used in graduate QM
courses in Chemistry.
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Messiah, A., Quantum Mechanics (19). The Bible of quantum

mechanics. You will need to take a real QM course to understand
it.
Eisenbud, The Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (20).
A good way to get a larger feel for QM.
Gamow, The New World of Mr Tompkins: George Gamow’s Clas-
sic Mr Tompkins in Paperback (21). Humorous wanderings with
Mr. Tompkins into the world of relativity and quantum mechan-
ics.
Atoms and Molecules
The following books by Gerhard Herzberg are the most complete works
on atomic and molecular structure and spectra.
Atomic Spectra and Atomic Structure (22)
Molecular Spectra and Molecular Structure I: Diatomic Molecules (23)
Molecular Spectra and Molecular Structure II: Infrated and Ra-
man Spectra of Polyatomic Molecules (24)
Molecular Spectra and Molecular Structure III: Electronic Spectra
and Electronic Structure of Polyatomic Molecules (25)
The Spectra and Structure of Simple Free Radicals (26)
More on Atoms and Molecules.
Radzig, A.A. and B.M. Smirov, Reference Data on Atoms, Molecules
and Ions (27). Lots of useful data on atoms and molecules.
Liquids
Allen, M.P., and D.J. Tildesley, Computer Simulation of Liq-
uids (28)
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V. Galiatsatos, Ed., Molecular Simulation Methods for Predicting

Polymer Properties (29)
Molecular Dynamics and computational Chemistry
C. J. Cramer, Essentials of Computational Chemistry, 2nd Ed. (30)
Haile, J.M., Molecular Dynamics Simulation (31)
Frenkel, D., and B. Smit, Understanding Molecular Simulation -
From Algorithms to Applications (32)
T. Schlick, Molecular Modeling and Simulation - An Interdisci-
plinary Guide (33)
Kinetic Theory and Transport Phenomena
Jeans, Kinetic Theory of Gases (34)
Kennard, Kinetic Theory of Gases (35)
Vincenti and Kruger, Introduction to Physical Gasdynamics (36)
Bird, Stewart, and Lightfoot, Transport Phenomena, 2nd Ed. (37).
A very useful book for solving problems involving transport of
mass, momentum, or heat. A bible for chemical engineers.
Chapman and Cowling, Mathematical Theory of Non-Uniform
Gases, 2nd Ed. (38). The origin of modern kinetic theory.
Useful Mathematics References
Abramowitz and Stegun, Editors, Handbook of Mathematical Func-
tions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables (39)
On-line Resources
NIST-JANAF Thermochemical Tables - The central source for
thermo-chemical properties is the JANNAF tables. (Originally
called the JANNAF tables, the name was later changed to JANAF.
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I have used the original name throughout.) This is a compilation

of properties by the National Institute of Standards and Technol-
ogy. The data is presented in a standard format that is used by
many computer programs. http://kinetics.nist.gov/janaf/
NIST Chemistry Webbook - The Webbook is an extensive com-
pilation of chemical and physical property data.
http://webbook.nist.gov/chemistry/
NIST Chemical Kinetics Database - An extensive database of
chemical reaction rates. http://kinetics.nist.gov/kinetics/index.jsp
Argonne Active Thermochemical Tables - Active Thermochemical
Tables (ATcT) provide thermochemical values (such as enthalpies
of formation, Gibbs energies of formation, bond dissociation ener-
gies, reaction enthalpies, etc.) for stable, reactive, and transient
chemical species. http://atct.anl.gov
Useful Journals (Partial list)
AIAA Journals (several)
AIChE Journal
Applied Optics
Applied Physics Letters
ASHRAE Transactions
ASME Journals (Several)
Chemical Physics Letters
Cryongenics
Heating, Piping and Air Conditioning
High Temperatures-High Pressures
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Industrial and Engineering Chemistry

Metalurgical Transactions A
Journal of the Americal Ceramics Society
Journal of Applied Physics
Journal of Applied Polymer Science
Journal of Chemical Physics
Journal of Metals
Journal of Physical Chemistry
Journal of the Optical Society of America
Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
Physics of Fluids
Physics Letters
Physical Review Letters
Physical Reviews
Reviews of Modern Physics
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Bibliography

[1] J. W. Daily, Statistical Thermodynamics: An Engineering Ap-

proach, Cambridge University Press, 2019.
[2] Y. A. Cengel, M. A. Boles, Thermodynamics: An Engineering
Approach, 8th Edition, McGraw Hill, 2014.
[3] H. B. Callen, Thermodynamics and an Introduction to Thermo-
statistics, 2nd Ed., Wiley, 1985.
[4] E. Fermi, Thermodynamics, Dover, 1936.
[5] J. Gibbs, Collected Works, Yale University Press, 1948.
[6] E. Guggenheim, Thermodynamics, Wiley, 1967.
[7] W. Reynolds, H. Perkins, Engineering Thermodynamics, McGraw
Hill, 1970.
[8] M. Zemansky, Heat and Thermodynamics, 5th Edition, McGraw
Hill, 1960.
[9] T. Hill, Introduction to Statistical Thermodynamics, Addison-
Wesley, 1960.
[10] F. P. Incropera, Introduction to Molecular Structure and Ther-
modynamics, Wiley, 1974.

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[11] E. Knuth, Introduction to Statistical Thermodynamics, McGraw

Hill, 1966.
[12] F. Reif, Fundamentals of Statistical and Thermal Physics, Wave-
land Press, 2008.
[13] N. M. Laurendeau, Satistical Thermodynamics: Fundamentals
and Applications, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
[14] J. Hirschfelder, C. Curtiss, R. Bird, Molecular Theory of Gases
and Liquids (corrected printing 1964), Wiley, 1964.
[15] D. McQuarrie, Staistical Mechanics, Harper and Row, 1976.
[16] L. Pauling, E. Wilson, Introduction to Quantum Mechanics with
Applications to Chemistry, Dover, 1935.
[17] P. Shankar, Principles of Quantum Mechanics, 2nd Edition,
Plenum, 2010.
[18] C. Cohen˙Tannoudji, B. Diu, F. Laloe, Quantum Mechanics, Voul-
mes 1&2, Wiley, 2006.
[19] A. Messiah, Quantum Mechanics, Voulmes 1&2, Interscience,
1961.
[20] L. Eisenbud, The Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Mechancis,
AMS Chelsea Publishing, 2007.
[21] G. Gamow, R. Stannard, The New World of Mr Tompkins: George
Gamow’s Classic Mr Tompkins in Paperback, Cambridge Univer-
sity Press, 1965.
[22] G. Herzberg, Atomic Spectra and Atomic Structure, Dover, 1944.
[23] G. Herzberg, I. Diatomic Molecules, Prentice-Hall, 1939.
[24] G. Herzberg, II. Infrared and Raman Spectra of Polyatomic
Molecules, Van Nsostrand Reinhold, 1945.
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[25] G. Herzberg, III: Electronic Spectra and Electronic Structure of

Polyatomic Molecules, Van Nsostrand Reinhold, 1966.
[26] G. Herzberg, The Spectra and Structure of Simple Free Radicals,
Cornell University Press, 1971.
[27] A. Radzig, B. Smirov, Reference Data on Atoms, Molecules and
Ions, Springer-Verlag, 1985.
[28] M. Allen, D. Tildesley, Computer Simulation of Liquids, Oxford
Science, 1987.
[29] V. Galiatsatos, Molecular Simulation Methods for Predicting
Polymer Proper- ties, Wiley-Interscience, 2005.
[30] C. Cramer, Essentials of Computational Chemistry, 2nd Edition,
Wiley, 2006.
[31] J. Haile, Molecular Dynamics Simulation, Wiley, 1997.
[32] D. Frenkela, B. Smit, Understanding Molecular Simulation - From
Algorithms to Applications, Academic Press, 2002.
[33] T. Schlick, Molecular Modeling and Simulation - An Interdisci-
plinary Guide, Springer-Verlag, 2002.
[34] J. Jeans, An Introduction to the Kinetic Theory of Gases, Cam-
bridge University Press, 2009.
[35] E. H. Kennard, Kinetic Theory of Gases: With an introduction to
statistical mechanics, McGraw Hill, 1938.
[36] W. G. Vincenti, J. Charles H. Kruger, Introduction to Physical
Gas Dynamics, Wiley, 1965.
[37] R. B. Bird, W. E. Stewart, E. N. Lightfoot, Transport Phenomena,
2nd Ed., Wiley, 2007.
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[38] S. Chapman, T. G. Cowling, The Mathematical Theory of Gases,

3rd Ed., Cambridge University Press, 1970.
[39] M. Abramowitz, Handbook of Mathematical Functions with For-
mulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables, Dover, 1965.