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Statistical Mechanics Made Simple (2nd Edition) (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Statistical Mechanics Made Simple (2nd Edition) (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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This second edition extends and improves on the first, already an
acclaimed and original treatment of statistical concepts insofar as
they impact theoretical physics and form the basis of modern
thermodynamics. This book illustrates through myriad examples the
principles and logic used in extending the simple laws of idealized
Newtonian physics and quantum physics into the real world of noise
and thermal fluctuations.In response to the many helpful comments
by users of the first edition, important features have been added
in this second, new and revised edition. These additions allow a
more coherent picture of thermal physics to emerge. Benefiting from
the expertise of the new co-author, the present edition includes a
detailed exposition - occupying two separate chapters - of the
renormalization group and Monte-Carlo numerical techniques, and of
their applications to the study of phase transitions. Additional
figures have been included throughout, as have new problems. A new
Appendix presents fully worked-out solutions to representative
problems; these illustrate various methodologies that are peculiar
to physics at finite temperatures, that is, to statistical
physics.This new edition incorporates important aspects of
many-body theory and of phase transitions. It should better serve
the contemporary student, while offering to the instructor a wider
selection of topics from which to craft lectures on topics ranging
from thermodynamics and random matrices to thermodynamic Green
functions and critical exponents, from the propagation of sound in
solids and fluids to the nature of quasiparticles in quantum
liquids and in transfer matrices.
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