Statistical and thermal physics : with computer applications /

This textbook carefully develops the main ideas and techniques of statistical and thermal physics and is intended for upper-level undergraduate courses. The authors each have more than thirty years' experience in teaching, curriculum development, and research in statistical and computational ph...

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Autor principal: Gould, Harvey, 1938-
Otros Autores: Tobochnik, Jan, 1953-
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Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2010.
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  • From microscopic to macroscopic behavior
  • Thermodynamic concepts and processes
  • Concepts of probability
  • Methodology of statistical mechanics
  • Magnetic systems
  • Many-particle systems
  • Chemical potential and phase equilibria
  • Classical gases and liquids
  • Critical phenomena : Landau theory and the renormalization group method.