TY - BOOK AU - Ford, Ian. TI - Statistical physics: an entropic approach SN - 9781119975304 U1 - 536.7015195 PY - 2013/// CY - Chichester PB - Wiley-Blackwell KW - Statistical thermodynamics N1 - 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 ER -