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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pathria, R.K ; Beale, Paul D.
Other Authors: Beale, Paul D.
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Elsevier/Academic Press, 2011.
Edition:3rd.
Subjects:
Online Access:http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy11pdf04/2010048955.html
Table of Contents:
  • The statistical basis of thermodynamics
  • Elements of the ensemble theory
  • The canonical ensemble
  • The grand canonical ensemble
  • Formulation of quantum statistics
  • The theory of simple gases
  • Ideal Bose systems
  • Ideal Fermi systems
  • Thermodynamics of the early universe
  • Statistical mechanics of interacting systems : the method of cluster expansions
  • Statistical mechanics of interacting systems : the method of quantized fields
  • Phase transitions : criticality, universality, and scaling
  • Phase transitions : exact (or almost exact) results for models
  • Phase transitions : the renormalization group approach
  • Fluctuations and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics
  • Computer simulations.