Table of Contents

  1. Translator’s Preface
  2. Preface to Second Edition
  3. Preface to First Edition
  4. Part I Fundamental Facts and Definitions
  5. Chapter I General Introduction
  6. Chapter II Radiation at Thermodynamic Equilibrium. Kirchhoff’s Law. Black Radiation
  7. Part II Deductions From Electrodynamics And Thermodynamics
  8. Chapter I Maxwell’s Radiation Pressure
  9. Chapter II Stefan-Boltzmann Law of Radiation
  10. Chapter III Wien’s Displacement Law
  11. Chapter IV Radiation of Any Arbitrary Spectral Distribution of Energy. Entropy and Temperature of Monochromatic Radiation
  12. Chapter V Electrodynamical Processes in a Stationary Field of Radiation
  13. Part III Entropy and Probability
  14. Chapter I Fundamental Definitions and Laws. Hypothesis of Quanta
  15. Chapter II Ideal Monatomic Gases
  16. Chapter III Ideal Linear Oscillators
  17. Chapter IV Direct Calculation of the Entropy in The Case of Thermodynamic Equilibrium
  18. Part IV A System of Oscillators in a Stationary Field of Radiation
  19. Chapter I The Elementary Dynamical Law for The Vibrations of an Ideal Oscillator. Hypothesis of Emission of Quanta
  20. Chapter II Absorbed Energy
  21. Chapter III Emitted Energy. Stationary State
  22. Chapter IV The Law of the Normal Distribution Of Energy. Elementary Quanta Of Matter and Electricity
  23. Part V Irreversible Radiation Processes
  24. Chapter I Fields of Radiation in General
  25. Chapter II One Oscillator in the Field of Radiation
  26. Chapter III A System of Oscillators
  27. Chapter V Conservation of Energy and Increase Of Entropy. Conclusion
  28. Author’s Bibliography
  29. Appendix I
  30. Appendix II