Perspectives on statistical thermodynamics
Atomic picture of gases -- Introduction to probability -- Law of large numbers -- Maxwell's distribution -- Delta function and density distribution functions -- Mean free path and diffusion -- Introduction to transport phenomena -- Brownian motion -- Langevin equation and large deviation -- Basic thermodynamics -- Macrosystems in equilibrium -- Thermodynamic description -- Thermodynamics: general consequences -- Entropy through examples -- Free energy and convex analysis -- Introduction to stat…
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- Full title :Perspectives on statistical thermodynamics / Yoshitsugu Oono, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Atomic picture of gases -- Introduction to probability -- Law of large numbers -- Maxwell's distribution -- Delta function and density distribution functions -- Mean free path and diffusion -- Introduction to transport phenomena -- Brownian motion -- Langevin equation and large deviation -- Basic thermodynamics -- Macrosystems in equilibrium -- Thermodynamic description -- Thermodynamics: general consequences -- Entropy through examples -- Free energy and convex analysis -- Introduction to statistical mechanics -- Statisticalmechanics of isothermal systems -- Canonical density operator -- Classical canonical ensemble -- Information and entropy -- Information and thermodynamics -- Oscillators at low temperatures -- How tomanipulate partial derivatives -- Thermodynamic stability -- Fluctuation and response -- Chemical potential -- Grand canonical ensemble -- Ideal quantumsystems at low temperatures -- Photons and internalmotions -- Phases and phase transitions -- Phase transition in d-space -- Critical phenomena and renormalization -- Mean field and transfer matrix -- Symmetry breaking -- First order phase transition
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- Publication Date:2017
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- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2017
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- Description:Seiten cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781107154018, 1107154014
- oclc:on1019807757
- LC Classification:QC311.5
- Dewey Decimal:536/.7015195
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