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Elements of Statistical Mechanics - Couverture souple

Ter Haar, D.

 
9780750623476: Elements of Statistical Mechanics
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0750623470 ISBN 13 : 9780750623476
Editeur : ButterworthHeinemann, 1995

Synopsis

Following the BoltzmannGibbs approach to statistical mechanics, this new edition of Dr ter Haar's important textbook, Elements of Statistical Mechanics, provides undergraduates and more senior academics with a thorough introduction to the subject. Each chapter is followed by a problem section and detailed bibliography. The first six chapters of the book provide a thorough introduction to the basic methods of statistical mechanics and indeed the first four may be used as an introductory course in themselves. The last three chapters offer more detail on the equation of state, with special emphasis on the van der Waals gas; the secondquantisation approach to manybody systems, with an examination of twotime temperaturedependent Green functions; phase transitions, including various approximation methods for treating the Ising model, a brief discussion of the exact solution of the twodimensional square Ising model, and short introductions to renormalisation group methods and the Yang and Lee theory of phase transitions. In the problem section which follows each chapter the reader is asked to complete proofs of basic theory and to apply that theory to various physical situations. Each chapter bibliography includes papers which are of historical interest. A further help to the reader are the solutions to selected problems which appear at the end of the book.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Following the BoltzmannGibbs approach to statistical mechanics, this new edition of Dr ter Haar's important textbook, Elements of Statistical Mechanics, provides undergraduates and more senior academics with a thorough introduction to the subject. Each chapter is followed by a problem section and detailed bibliography. The first six chapters of the book provide a thorough introduction to the basic methods of statistical mechanics and indeed the first four may be used as an introductory course in themselves. The last three chapters offer more detail on the equation of state, with special emphasis on the van der Waals gas; the secondquantisation approach to manybody systems, with an examination of twotime temperaturedependent Green functions; phase transitions, including various approximation methods for treating the Ising model, a brief discussion of the exact solution of the twodimensional square Ising model, and short introductions to renormalisation group methods and the Yang and Lee theory of phase transitions. In the problem section which follows each chapter the reader is asked to complete proofs of basic theory and to apply that theory to various physical situations. Each chapter bibliography includes papers which are of historical interest. A further help to the reader are the solutions to selected problems which appear at the end of the book.

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Éditeur
ButterworthHeinemann
Date d'édition
1995
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0750623470
ISBN 13 
9780750623476
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
3
Nombre de pages
416
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
Barbara Criscuolo
b.criscuolo@lswr.it

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Milano
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