Pathria, R.K. <br/><br/>
Statistical mechanics/ 
R.K. Pathria. 
 - 2nd ed. 
 - Oxford:  Butterworth Heinemann,  1997. 
 - xiv, 529 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Historical introduction; <br/>The statistical basis of thermodynamics; <br/>Elements of the ensemble theory; <br/>The canonical ensemble; <br/>The grand canonical ensemble; <br/>Formulation of quantum statistics; <br/>The theory of simple gases; <br/>Ideal Bose systems; <br/>Ideal Fermi systems; <br/>Statistical mechanics of interacting systems: <br/>The method of cluster explansions, the method of quantized fields; <br/>Phase transitions: critically, universality and scaling, exact (or almost exact) results for the various models, the renormalization group approach; <br/>Fluctuations. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>97881473264 0750624698 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Statistical mechanics<br/>Thermodynamics<br/>Kinetic theory of gases
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>530.13  / PAT/S