Basics of statistical physics
Subtitle: a bachelor degree introduction
By: Harald J.W. Müller-Kirsten
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Hackensack, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9789814287227
Subjects: Statistical physics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-206) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Statistical mechanics of an ideal gas (Maxwell); title: The a priori probability; title: Classical statistics (Maxwell-Boltzmann); title: Entropy; title: Quantum statistics; title: Exact form of distribution functions; title: Application to radiation (Light Quanta); title: Debye theory of specific heat of solids; title: Electrons in metals; title: Limitations of the preceding theory : improvement with ensemble method; title: Averaging instead of maximization, and Bose-Eomstein condensation.