Statistical Physics
Statistical physics is not a difficult subject, and I trust that this will not be found a difficult book. It contains much that a number of generations of Lancaster students have studied with me, as part of their physics honours degree work. The lecture course was of twenty hours duration, and I hav...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1988, 1988
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1988 |
| Series: | Student Physics Series
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Basic ideas
- 1.1 The macrostate
- 1.2 Microstates
- 1.3 The averaging postulate
- 1.4 Distributions
- 1.5 The statistical method in outline
- 1.6 A model example
- 1.7 Statistical entropy and microstates
- 2 Distinguishable particles
- 2.1 The thermal equilibrium distribution
- 2.2 What are ? and ??
- 2.3 A statistical definition of temperature
- 2.4 The Boltzmann distribution and the partition function
- 2.5 Calculation of thermodynamic functions
- 3 Two examples
- 3.1 A spin(math) solid
- 3.2 Localized harmonic oscillators
- 4 Gases: The density of states
- 4.1 Fitting waves into boxes
- 4.2 Other information for statistical physics
- 4.3 An example — helium gas
- 5 Gases: The distributions
- 5.1 Distribution in groups
- 5.2 Identical particles-fermions and bosons
- 5.3 Counting microstates for gases
- 5.4 The three distributions
- 6 Maxwell-Boltzmann gases
- 6.1 The validity of the Maxwell-Boltzmann limit
- 6.2 The Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution of speeds
- 6.3 The connection tothermodynamics
- 7 Diatomic gases
- 7.1 Energy contributions in diatomic gases
- 7.2 Heat capacity of a diatomic gas
- 7.3 The heat capacity of hydrogen
- 8 Fermi-Dirac gases
- 8.1 Properties of an ideal Fermi-Dirac gas
- 8.2 Application to metals
- 8.3 Application to helium-3
- 9 Bose-Einstein Gases
- 9.1 Properties of an ideal Bose-Einstein gas
- 9.2 Application to helium-4
- 9.3 Phoney bosons
- 10 Entropy in other situations
- 10.1 Entropy and disorder
- 10.2 An assembly at fixed temperature
- 10.3 Vacancies in solids
- 11 Phase transitions
- 11.1 Types of phase transition
- 11.2 Ferromagnetism of a spin-½ solid
- 11.3 Real ferromagnetic materials
- 11.4 Order-disorder transformations in alloys
- 12 Two new ideas
- 12.1 Statics or dynamics?
- 12.2 Ensembles-a larger view
- Appendix 1 Some elementary counting problems
- Appendix 2 Some problems with large numbers
- Appendix 3 Some useful integrals
- Appendix 4 Some useful constants
- Appendix 5 Questions
- Appendix 6 Answers to questions