Description:
It is ideal for a senior or first-year graduate level courses. Statistical Mechanics is the extended version of McQuarrie”s 1984 text — Statistical Thermodynamics — now out of print. Although our printing of this book carries a 2000 copyright date, this is not a new edition. It is the original first edition, without any changes to the text (except preface). Despite its age, it is still a renowned and accessible introduction to the subject, containing a large number of chapter-ending problems for students.
Target Audience:
A must-have for persons studying statistcal mechanics/physics.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. Introduction and Review •
Chapter 2. The Canonical Ensemble •
Chapter 3. Other Ensembles and Fluctuations •
Chapter 4. Boltzmann Statistics, Fermi-Dirac Statistics, and Bose-Einstein Statistics •
Chapter 5. Ideal Monatomic Gas •
Chapter 6. Ideal Diatomic Gas •
Chapter 7. Classical Statistical Mechanics •
Chapter 8. Ideal Polyatomic Gas •
Chapter 9. Chemical Equilibrium •
Chapter 10. Quantum Statistics •
Chapter 11. Crysta •
Chapter 12. Imperfect Gases •
Chapter 13. Distribution Functions in Classical Monatomic Liquids •
Chapter 14. Perturbation Theories of Liquids •
Chapter 15. Solutions of Strong Electrolytes •
Chapter 16. Kinetic Theory of Gases and Molecular Collisions •
Chapter 17. Continuum Mechanics •
Chapter 18. Kinetic Theory of Gases and the Boltzmann Equation •
Chapter 19. Transport Processes in Dilute Gases •
Chapter 20. Theory of Brownian Motion •
Chapter 21. The Time-Correlation Function Formalism, I •
Chapter 22. The Time-Correlation Function Formalism, II •
Appendix A. Values of Some Physical Constants and Energy Conversion Factors •
Appendix B. Fourier Integrals and the Dirac Delta Function •
Appendix C. Debye Heat Capacity Function •
Appendix D. Hard-Sphere Radial Distribution Function •
Appendix E. Tables for the m-6-8 Potential •
Appendix F. Derivation of the Golden Rule of Perturbation Theory •
Appendix G. The Dirac BRA and KET Notation •
Appendix H. The Heisenberg Time-Dependent Representation •
Appendix I. The Poynting Flux Vector •
Appendix J. The Radiation Emitted by an Oscillating Dipole •
Appendix K. Dielectric Constant and Absorption • Index
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