Ford, Ian.

Statistical physics: an entropic approach/ Ian Ford - Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. - xiv, 266 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

1 Disorder or uncertainty?

2 Classical thermodynamics

3 Applications of classical thermodynamics

4 Core ideas of statistical thermodynamics

5 Statistical thermodynamics of a system of harmonic oscillators

6 The Boltzmann factor and the canonical partition function

7 The grand canonical ensemble and grand partition function

8 Statistical models of entropy

9 Statistical thermodynamics of the classical ideal gas

10 Quantum gases

11 Boson gas

12 Fermion gas

13 Photon gas

Statistical thermodynamics of interacting particles

Thermodynamics away from equilibrium

The dynamics of probability

Fluctuation relations

Final remarks

Further Reading

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Statistical thermodynamics

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