Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics / edited by Gerain Coleman and Orlando Holmes.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Statistical mechanics and thermodynamics: a maxwellian view -- Inherent correlations between thermodynamics and statistical physics in extensive and nonextensive systems -- Statistical thermodynamics of soft surfaces -- High-temperature thermodynamics by laser-vaporization mass spectrometry: an approach based on statistical mechanics -- Thermodynamics and statistical physics of damage processes in Quasi-Ductile solids -- On the stochastic thermodynamics of reactive systems -- Surface processes and phase transitions from Ab initio atomistic thermodynamics and statistical mechanics -- Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics of systems with long-range interactions.