This book provides an introduction to the modern statistical theory of nonequilibrium thermodynamics, based on a synthesis of the statistical thermodynamics of Onsager and the kinetic molecular theory of Boltzmann. Topics featured in the initial chapters include an introduction to stochastic processes and Brownian motion, the linear statistical theory of irreversible process, fluctuations in chemical reactions, and the Boltzmann equation. Using the author's canonical representation for the rates of elementary processes, the book develops the statistical thermodynamics of molecular process in a form that is useful for systems close to or far from equilibrium. Molecular noise arising from chemical reactions, electrochemical process, ion channels in membranes, hydrodynamics, and molecular collisions are treated in a unified way. The final chapters focus on the way in which nonlinear molecular mechanisms give rise to steady states, critical points, oscillations, and chaos, including the thermodynamic theory of steady states and its relationship to molecular fluctuations and linear stability. Broadly applicable to dynamical problems in chemistry, physics, and biophysics, the book should be accessible to graduate students, faculty, and other researchers in the physical sciences and engineering.
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The statistical theory of nonequilibrium processes, as expounded in this book, is applicable to a wide variety of system both close to and far from equilibrium.Joel Keizer shows to us some applications in physics, chemistry and biophysics. The whole of this statistical theory is based in stochastic processes and physical ensembles. The Keizer's discussion about the advantages of physical vs. Gibbsian ensembles is clear and satisfactory. I think that the concept of microscopic reversibility and its role in the canonical theory is obscure. In subsequent pages Joel Keizer developed topics in chemical and electrochemical processes, ion biological membranes, fluctuating hydrodynamics and through light scattering. Nonequilibrium steady states are presented in the chapters 7 and 8; in 9 appears the relations between the three levels of description of this statistical theory (classical, continuum and molecular level). Finally systems far for equilibrium are treated in "Nonstationary processes: Transients, Limit Cycles and Chaotic Trajectories".
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conditional fluctuations, elementary molecular processes, contracted description, hydrodynamic level, beating mercury heart, local equilibrium entropy, fluctuation dissipation theory, conditional ensemble, bimolecular isomerization, thermodynamic level, physical ensembles, stochastic diffusion process, light scattering spectrum, chaotic bursting, molecular fluctuations, extensive variables, conditional average, basic ansatz, nonequilibrium steady states, stationary ensemble, equilibrium ensemble, contraction procedure, thermodynamic derivatives, canonical theory, microcanonical distribution Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Fokker Planck, Ornstein Uhlenbeck, Academic Press, Boltzmann's H-theorem, Contraction of Stationary, Hodgkin Huxley, Ionic Conduction Noise, North Holland, Rayleigh Onsager, Wiener Khintchine, American Mathematical Society, Butler Volmer, Cambridge University Press, Gibbs Duhem, John Wiley, Michaelis Menten, Onsager Casimir, Stochastic Theory of Chemical Reactions New!
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- Stochastic Processes in Physics and Chemistry, Volume 1, Second Edition (North-Holland Personal Library) by N.G. Van Kampen on page 176, page 305, and page 351
- Lectures in Statistical Mechanics (Lectures in Applied Mathematics Series, Vol 1) by George Uhlenbeck on page 41, page 91, and page 448
- Statistical Physics, Third Edition, Part 1: Volume 5 (Course of Theoretical Physics, Volume 5) by L D Landau on page 91, and page 132
- Theoretical Chemistry - Advances and Perspectives: v.6 (Vol 6) by Douglas Henderson on page 305, and page 351
- Classical Kinetic Theory of Fluids by Pierre Resibois on page 91, and page 447
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- Chemical Hardness: Applications from Molecules to Solids by Ralph G. Pearson on page 123
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