Statistical and thermal physics : with computer applications /

Gould, Harvey, 1938-

Statistical and thermal physics : with computer applications / Harvey Gould and Jan Tobochnik. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2010. - xvii, 511 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From microscopic to macroscopic behavior -- Thermodynamic concepts and processes -- Concepts of probability -- Methodology of statistical mechanics -- Magnetic systems -- Many-particle systems -- Chemical potential and phase equilibria -- Classical gases and liquids -- Critical phenomena : Landau theory and the renormalization group method.



9780691137445 (acid-free paper)


Statistical physics.
Thermodynamics.

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