Introductory Statistical Mechanics - Couverture rigide

Bowley, Roger

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0198517947 ISBN 13 : 9780198517948

Editeur : Clarendon Press, 1996

Synopsis

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.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book explains the ideas and techniques of statistical mechanics-the theory of condensed matter-in a simple and progressive way. The text starts with the laws of thermodynamics and simple ideas of quantum mechanics. The conceptual ideas underlying the subject are explained carefully; the mathematical ideas are developed in parallel to give a coherent overall view. The text is illustrated with examples not just from solid state physics, but also from recent theories of radiation from black holes and recent data on the background radiation from the Cosmic background explorer. In this second edition, slightly more advanced material on statistical mechanics is introduced, material which students should meet in an undergraduate course. As a result the new edition contains three more chapters on phase transitions at an appropriate level for an undergraduate student. There are plenty of problems at the end of each chapter, and brief model answers are provided for odd-numbered problems. From reviews of the first edition: '...Introductory Statistical Mechanics is clear and crisp and takes advantage of the best parts of the many approaches to the subject' Physics Today

Biographie de l'auteur

Roger Bowley is at University of Nottingham.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Clarendon Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0198517947
• ISBN 13: 9780198517948
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 301
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Messaggerie Libri; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8; Assago Milano; Italie