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040 _cCUS
082 _a530.13
_bPAT/S
100 _aPathria, R.K.
245 0 _aStatistical mechanics/
_cR.K. Pathria.
250 _a2nd ed.
260 _aOxford:
_bButterworth,
_c1996.
300 _axiv, 529 p. :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm.
505 _aHistorical introduction; 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; Statistical mechanics of interacting systems: The method of cluster explansions, the method of quantized fields; Phase transitions: critically, universality and scaling, exact (or almost exact) results for the various models, the renormalization group approach; Fluctuations.
650 _aStatistical mechanics
650 _aThermodynamics
650 _aKinetic theory of gases
942 _cWB16