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Statistical Physics

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  • © 1988

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Authors:
  1. A. M. Guénault

    1. University of Lancaster, UK

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Part of the book series: Student Physics Series (SPS)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Basic ideas

    • A. M. Guénault
    Pages 1-15

  3. Distinguishable particles

    • A. M. Guénault
    Pages 16-29

  4. Two examples

    • A. M. Guénault
    Pages 30-51

  5. Gases: The density of states

    • A. M. Guénault
    Pages 52-61

  6. Gases: The distributions

    • A. M. Guénault
    Pages 62-75

  7. Maxwell-Boltzmann gases

    • A. M. Guénault
    Pages 76-86

  8. Diatomic gases

    • A. M. Guénault
    Pages 87-98

  9. Fermi-Dirac gases

    • A. M. Guénault
    Pages 99-114

  10. Bose-Einstein gases

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    Pages 115-131

  11. Entropy in other situations

    • A. M. Guénault
    Pages 132-140

  12. Phase transitions

    • A. M. Guénault
    Pages 141-154

  13. Two new ideas

    • A. M. Guénault
    Pages 155-165

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 166-186
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About this book

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 have added comparatively little to the lecture syllabus. A pre­ requisite is that the reader should have a working knowledge of basic thermal physics (i.e. the laws of thermodynamics and their application to simple substances). The book Thermal Physics by Colin Finn in this series forms an ideal introduc­ tion. Statistical physics has a thousand and one different ways of approaching the same basic results. I have chosen a rather down-to-earth and unsophisticated approach, without I hope totally obscuring the considerable interest of the fun­ damentals. This enables applications to be introduced at an early stage in the book. As a low-temperature physicist, I have always found a particular interest in statistical physics, and especially in how the absolute zero is approached. I should not, therefore, apologize for the low-temperature bias in the topics which I have selected from the many possibilities.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Lancaster, UK

    A. M. Guénault

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Statistical Physics

  • Authors: A. M. Guénault

  • Series Title: Student Physics Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9792-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: A. M. Gu�nault 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-4150-0259-2Published: 28 April 1988

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-9792-5Published: 09 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 186

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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