Statistical Physics: An Introduction

✍ Scribed by Professor Daijiro Yoshioka (auth.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 205
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book provides a comprehensive presentation of the basics of statistical physics. The first part explains the essence of statistical physics and how it provides a bridge between microscopic and macroscopic phenomena, allowing one to derive quantities such as entropy. Here the author avoids going into details such as Liouville’s theorem or the ergodic theorem, which are difficult for beginners and unnecessary for the actual application of the statistical mechanics. In the second part, statistical mechanics is applied to various systems which, although they look different, share the same mathematical structure. In this way readers can deepen their understanding of statistical physics. The book also features applications to quantum dynamics, thermodynamics, the Ising model and the statistical dynamics of free spins.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Thermal Equilibrium and the Principle of Equal Probability....Pages 3-21
Entropy....Pages 23-33
The Partition Function and the Free Energy....Pages 35-44
Front Matter....Pages 45-45
Ideal Gases....Pages 47-66
The Heat Capacity of a Solid, and Black-Body Radiation....Pages 67-81
The Elasticity of Rubber....Pages 83-87
Magnetic Materials....Pages 89-111
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
First-Order Phase Transitions....Pages 115-131
Second-Order Phase Transitions....Pages 133-145
Dense Gases — Ideal Gases at Low Temperature....Pages 147-181
Back Matter....Pages 183-208

✦ Subjects

Statistical Physics;Mathematical Methods in Physics;Thermodynamics

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