Statistical mechanics and the physics of fluids (Publications of the Scuola Normale Superiore) (v. 1)
By Unknown Author.
Description
This volume collects the lecture notes of a course on statistical mechanics, held at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa for third-to-fifth year students in physics and chemistry. Three main themes are covered in the book. The first part gives a compact presentation of the foundations of statistical mechanics and their connections with thermodynamics. Applications to ideal gases of material particles and of excitation quanta are followed by a brief introduction to a real classical gas and to a weakly coupled classical plasma, and by a broad overview on the three states of matter. The second pa...
ISBN(s)
8876421440, 9788876421440
