TY - BOOK AU - Pal, Palash B. TI - An introductory course of statistical mechanics SN - 9788173198649 U1 - 530.13 PY - 2008/// CY - New Dehli PB - Narosa Publishing House KW - Physics N1 - 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 ER -