Statistical mechanics/
R.K. Pathria.
- 2nd ed.
- Oxford: Butterworth, 1996.
- xiv, 529 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
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Statistical mechanics Thermodynamics Kinetic theory of gases