Statistical Physics, Second Revised and Enlarged Edition
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Statistical Physics SecondRevisedandEnlargedEdition by TonyGuénault Emeritus Professor ofLow Temperature Physics Lancaster Unive ...
A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN 978-1-4020- 5 974-2 (PB) ISBN 978-1-4020 ...
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1 Basic ideas Preface ix 1.1 The macrostate 1.2 Microstates 1 .3 The averaging postulate 1.4 Distributions 1 5 The statistical ...
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Preface Preface to the first edition Statistical physics is not a difficult subject, and I trust that this will not be found a d ...
x Preface Thebookwill,Ihope,be usefulfor universitycourses ofvariouslengthsandtypes. Several examples follow: Basicgeneral cou ...
Preface xi A SURVIVAL GUIDE TO STATISTICAL PHYSICS Chapter 1Assembly of NN identical particles volumeVVV, in thermal equilibrium ...
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1 Basic ideas There is an obvious problem about getting to grips with an understanding of matter in thermalequilibrium. Let us s ...
2 Basic ideas a smallnumber ofpairs ofthermodynamic co-ordinates – e.g. pressurePand volumeV;magnetic fieldBand magnetizationM ...
The averagingpostulate 3 wouldneedto specifythe (vector) position andmomentum ofeachoftheNgas par- ticles,a total of 6Nco-ordina ...
4 Basic ideas ‘accessible’isincludedto allowfor the possibilityofmetastability.There canbe situations in which groups of microst ...
Distributions 5 Actuallyanythermodynamicsystem musthave someinteractionbetweenits parti- cles, otherwise it would never reach eq ...
6 Basic ideas description;itisarguablethat thensymbolsshouldalsobedifferentiated,but we shall not do this. Specifications – an e ...
Amodel example 7 avalid distribution must satisfythe two conditionsimpliedbythe macrostate ∑ j nnj=N (1.2) ∑ j nnjεεj=U (1.3) Eq ...
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