Pal, Palash B.

An introductory course of statistical mechanics / Palash B. Pal - New Dehli : Narosa Publishing House, 2008 - xxii, 372 p.

Includes books for related interest, answers to selected exercises and index

1. A review of thermodynamics
2. Microstates and macrostates
3. Microcanonical ensemble
4. Canonical ensemble
5. Grand canonical ensemble
6. Equivalence of different ensembles
7. Non-interacting Bose gas
8. Non-interacting Fermi gas
9. Heat capacities
10. Stellar matter
11. Approximation methods
12. Fluids
13. Ising and related models
14. Inhomogeneous systems
15. Phase transitions
16. Boltzmann equation



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Physics

530.13 / P1708