Essential Graduate Physics - Statistical Mechanics

by Konstantin K. Likharev

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Stony Brook University
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Physics, Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. 1: Review of Thermodynamics
  7. 1.1: Introduction - Statistical physics and thermodynamics
  8. 1.2: The 2nd law of thermodynamics, entropy, and temperature
  9. 1.3: The 1st and 3rd laws of thermodynamics, and heat capacity
  10. 1.4: Thermodynamic potentials
  11. 1.5: Systems with a variable number of particles
  12. 1.6: Thermal machines
  13. 1.7: Exercise problems
  14. 2: Principles of Physical Statistics
  15. 2.1: Statistical ensemble and probability
  16. 2.2: Microcanonical ensemble and distribution
  17. 2.3: Maxwell’s Demon, information, and computing
  18. 2.4: Canonical ensemble and the Gibbs distribution
  19. 2.5: Harmonic Oscillator Statistics
  20. 2.6: Two important applications
  21. 2.7: Grand canonical ensemble and distribution
  22. 2.8: Systems of Independent Particles
  23. 2.9: Exercise problems
  24. 3: Ideal and Not-So-Ideal Gases
  25. 3.1: Ideal Classical Gas
  26. 3.2: Calculating Chemical Potentials
  27. 3.3: Degenerate Fermi gas
  28. 3.4: The Bose-Einstein condensation
  29. 3.5: Gases of weakly interacting particles
  30. 3.6: Exercise problems
  31. 4: Phase Transitions
  32. 4.1: First order phase transitions
  33. 4.2: Continuous phase transitions
  34. 4.3: Landau’s mean-field theory
  35. 4.4: Ising model - Weiss molecular-field theory
  36. 4.5: Ising model - Exact and numerical results
  37. 4.6: Exercise problems
  38. 5: Fluctuations
  39. 5.1: Characterization of Fluctuations
  40. 5.2: Energy and the number of particles
  41. 5.3: Volume and Temperature
  42. 5.4: Fluctuations as functions of time
  43. 5.5: Fluctuations and Dissipation
  44. 5.6: The Kramers problem and the Smoluchowski equation
  45. 5.7: The Fokker-Planck Equation
  46. 5.8: Back to the correlation function
  47. 5.9: Exercise problems
  48. 6: Elements of Kinetics
  49. 6.1: The Liouville Theorem and the Boltzmann Rquation
  50. 6.2: The Ohm law and the Drude formula
  51. 6.3: Electrochemical potential and drift-diffusion equation
  52. 6.4: Charge Carriers in Semiconductors - Statics and Kinetics
  53. 6.5: Thermoelectric effects
  54. 6.6: Exercise problems
  55. Back Matter
  56. Index
  57. Glossary
  58. Detailed Licensing