Statistical mechanics.

Pathria, R. K.

Statistical mechanics. - 3rd ed. / R.K. Pathria, Paul D. Beale. - Boston : Academic Press, 2011. - p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Historical introduction; The statistical basis of thermodynamics; Elements of the ensemble theory; The canonical ensemble; The grand canonical ensemble; Formulation of quantum statistics; The theory of simple gases; Ideal Bose systems; Ideal Fermi systems; Statistical mechanics of interacting systems: The method of cluster explansions, the method of quantized fields; Phase transitions: critically, universality and scaling, exact (or almost exact) results for the various models, the renormalization group approach; Fluctuations.

9780750624695 (pbk.)

2010048955


Statistical mechanics.

530.13 PAT