Pauli Lectures on Physics, Volume IV: Statistical Mechanics

✍ Scribed by Wolfgang Pauli, Charles P. Enz, Victor Weisskopf

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 69
• Series: Pauli Lectures on Physics
• Edition: [MIT 1973]
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume represents a concise course ón statistical mechanics, centering on the historical development of the basic ideas and on the logical structure of the theory. Major chapter headings include General Statistical Mechanics, Brownian Motion and Quantum Statistics.

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword by Victor F. Weisskopf, VII.
Preface by the Editor, IX.
Stosszahlansatz, 1.
General Statistics Mechanics, 25.
Brownian Motion, 63.
Quantum Statistics, 70.
Bibliography, 109.
Appendix. Comments by the Editor, 111.
Index, 117.

✦ Subjects

Theoretical Physics, Statistical Mechanics, Quantum Statistics