Overview
- Provides a general introduction to the ideas and methods of statistical mechanics
- Meets the needs of chemical, mechanical, and materials science engineers
- Explicitly addresses fundamental questions
- Focuses on the practical applications of statistical physics
- Adopts a graded approach to learning
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: UNITEXT for Physics (UNITEXTPH)
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“The book is billed as a text that will meet the needs of graduate students in chemical, mechanical, and materials science engineering, and it succeeds in that objective. … Piazza’s book is a welcome addition to the statistical-physics canon. … Piazza’s choice of material and his lucid presentation of abstract, sometimes difficult concepts will make for instructive and enjoyable reading.” (Eldred Chimowitz, Physics Today, October, 2017)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Roberto Piazza has been Full Professor in Condensed Matter Physics at the Politecnico di Milano since 2005 and has also been invited professor at the École Normale Supérieure in Lyon (2011), Leverhulme professor in Cambridge (2013), and Debye professor at Utrecht University (2015). He obtained a Master’s degree in Physics from the University of Milan and a PhD in Quantum Electronics from the University of Pavia, with V. Degiorgio as advisor. After having worked with W. Goldburg at the University of Pittsburgh, he became first a lecturer in Pavia and then Reader at the Politecnico di Milano. He is currently section editor of the Journal of Physics Condensed Matter for liquids, soft matter, and biological physics, and a member of the European Space Sciences Committee of the European Science Foundation (ESF). His research activity, mostly devoted to the experimental study of soft matter and complex fluids, has covered topics ranging from colloidal suspensions to surfactant and protein solutions. The results of these studies have been the subject of about 100 papers published in international peer-reviewed journals. He is also author of the popular book Soft Matter, published by Springer in Italian, English, and Chinese.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Statistical Physics
Book Subtitle: A Prelude and Fugue for Engineers
Authors: Roberto Piazza
Series Title: UNITEXT for Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44537-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-44536-6Published: 28 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83075-9Published: 16 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-44537-3Published: 21 October 2016
Series ISSN: 2198-7882
Series E-ISSN: 2198-7890
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 453
Number of Illustrations: 59 b/w illustrations
Topics: Complex Systems, Condensed Matter Physics, Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, Solid Mechanics, Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems