Microstates, Entropy and Quanta An Introduction to Statistical Mechanics /

Statistical mechanics: the bane of many a physics student. But when pared back to its underlying concepts and built from the ground up, the field takes on a charm of its own, and embraces a wide variety of physical phenomena. This book presents a straightforward introduction to the key concepts in s...

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Main Author: Koks, Don (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Subjects:
Statistical physics.
Dynamical systems.
Thermodynamics.
Physics.
Signal processing.
Image processing.
Speech processing systems.
ISBN:9783030024291
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1 Preliminary Ideas of Counting, and Some Useful Mathematics
  • 2 Accessible States and the Fundamental Postulate of Statistical Mechanics
  • 3 The Laws of Thermodynamics
  • 4 The First Law in Detail
  • 5 The Non-Isolated System: the Boltzmann Distribution
  • 6 The Motion of Gas Particles, and Transport Processes
  • 7. Introductory Quantum Statistics
  • 8 Fermion Statistics in Metals
  • 9 Boson Statistics in Blackbody Radiation
  • Index.

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