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Online text: https://davidtong.org/teaching/statistical-physics/statmechhtml/S4
Cited passages: David Tong, Statistical Physics, §4.2, equation 4.156 and “Quasi-Static Processes”: state energy versus heat and work; Tong uses work positive inward.
Cited passages: David Tong, Statistical Physics, section 4.1: equilibrium and thermal contact; David Tong, Statistical Physics, sections 4.2–4.3: ideal-gas internal energy and reversible adiabatic work; David Tong, Statistical Physics, §4.3.1: adiabatic expansion between the isothermal legs; David Tong, Statistical Physics, §4.4.2: Maxwell relations and the general heat-capacity difference; David Tong, Statistical Physics, §§4.2–4.3: work, heat, and adiabatic legs of a cycle; Tong, Statistical Physics, first law and heat capacities; Tong, Statistical Physics, §§4.2–4.3: quasi-static and reversible processes.
Online text: https://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/statphys/four.pdf
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