Introductory Statistical Thermodynamics

Statistical Mechanics

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Description The aim of this book is to explain the ideas and techniques of statistical mechanics in a simple and progressive way, starting from the laws of thermodynamics and simple ideas of quantum mechanics. The reader is led through progressively more complex problems with all the mathematical detail explained. This work should be of interest to second or third year undergraduate students of physics or chemistry.

An introduction to statistical mechanics and the principle of equal a priori probabilities

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Introductory Statistical Thermodynamics. Book • Authors: Nils Dalarsson, Mariana Dalarsson and Leonardo Golubović. Browse book content. About the. Introductory Statistical Thermodynamics is a text for an introductory one-semester course in statistical thermodynamics for upper-level undergraduate and.

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Part II examines systems composed of independent molecules or of other independent subsystems. Theoretical Physics 5 Wolfgang Nolting. Modern Thermodynamics Arieh Ben-Naim. Topics range from ideal monatomic gas and monatomic crystals to polyatomic gas and configuration of polymer molecules and rubber elasticity. Click here to close this overlay, or press the "Escape" key on your keyboard. Well, any lecturer who delivers a university course on this subject will have experienced that it is fairly difficult to explain the basic concepts, such as entropy and the probabilistic approach to it, in a way that is easily comprehensible and at the same time encompasses the necessary generality and rigour.

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Starting out with an elementary discussion of the main concepts of phenomenological thermodynamics, and the basic terms and notions that are introduced there, a short and very elementary treatise of the necessary concepts of probability theory follow. Then the basic ideas of statistical mechanics are described and immediately illustrated by simple but relevant applications, like non-interacting spins on a lattice, or the entropic elasticity of a rubber band. In this chapter, close contact with elementary quantum mechanics is maintained by calculating partition functions of quantum particles in one- and three-dimensional confining boxes, and proceeding then to diatomic molecules.

Then the particular aspects of dealing with the statistical mechanics of many identical particles are developed, giving very nice application examples both for bosons and for fermions e.

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These examples are not just schematic, but show comparisons to carefully selected experimental data. And throughout the whole text one can find many problems that illustrate the concepts nicely and help significantly to deepen the reader's understanding.

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The final three chapters deal with some aspects of phase transitions. Again both the discussion of the basic description of first-order phase transitions and the mean-field treatment of the Ising model are written in the same easily comprehensive style as the whole book. However, I do not like so much the very last chapter on Ginzberg-Landau theory: But this is clearly a minor detail, and as a whole the concept of this book is very well thought through, and the exposition very clear.

The value of the book is further enhanced by several useful appendices, answers to the problems, and a bibliography which is a good mix of historical landmarks and recent developments.