Introduction to statistical physics/
Kerson Huang.
- 2nd ed.
- New Delhi: CRC Press, 2010.
- xiii, 318 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
1. Introduction to Statistical Methods -- 2. Statistical Description of a Physical System -- 3. Overview of Classical Thermodynamics -- 4. Microcanonical Ensemble -- 5. Canonical Ensemble -- 6. The Classical Gas in the Canonical Formalism -- 7. The Grand Canonical and Pressure Ensembles -- 8. The Ideal Quantum Gas -- 9. The Ideal Fermi Gas -- 10. Free Bosons: Bose-Einstein Condensation; Photon Gas -- 11. Phonons and Magnons -- 12. Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena: Classical Theories -- 13. The Ising Model -- 14. Scaling Theories and the Renormalization Group -- 15. Nonequilibrium Phenomena: I. Kinetic Methods -- 16. Nonequilibrium phenomena: II. Stochastic Methods -- A.1. Stirling's asymptotic series -- A.2. Gaussian integrals -- A.3. Dirac's delta function -- A.4. Volume of a hypersphere -- A.5. Jacobian transformations -- A.6. The saddle-point method -- A.7. Numerical constants.