This note offers
an introduction to probability, statistical mechanics, and thermodynamics.
Numerous examples are used to illustrate a wide variety of physical phenomena
such as magnetism, polyatomic gases, thermal radiation, electrons in solids, and
noise in electronic devices.
This
note explains the following topics: Thermodynamics, Introduction to Statistics,
Statistical mechanics, Statistical mechanics of quantum systems, Phase
transitions, Liouville’s theorem .
The book is
addressed to mathematicians physicists of any level. Topics covered includes:
The Ensemble of Microscopic Subsystems, Real gases, The Quantum Statistical
Physics, Ensemble of microscopic subsystems, Quantum gases.
This note offers
an introduction to probability, statistical mechanics, and thermodynamics.
Numerous examples are used to illustrate a wide variety of physical phenomena
such as magnetism, polyatomic gases, thermal radiation, electrons in solids, and
noise in electronic devices.