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TOPICS IN STATISTICAL MECHANICS
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| By: |
Brian Cowan |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£71.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1860945643 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781860945649 |
| Publisher: |
IMPERIAL COLLEGE PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
15 September, 2005 |
| Series: |
Imperial College Press Advanced Physics Texts 3 |
| Pages: |
336 |
| Description: |
Presents an advanced level course on statistical and thermal physics. This book provides a review of the formal structure of statistical mechanics. It emphasises on interacting systems. It considers the weakly interacting systems, and then examines the system where interactions lead to phase transitions. |
| Synopsis: |
Building on the material learned by students in their first few years of study, this book presents an advanced level course on statistical and thermal physics. It begins with a review of the formal structure of statistical mechanics and thermodynamics considered from a unified viewpoint. After a brief revision of non-interacting systems, emphasis is laid on interacting systems. First, weakly interacting systems are considered, where the interest is in seeing how such interactions cause small deviations from the non-interacting case. Second, systems are examined where interactions lead to drastic changes, namely phase transitions. A number of specific examples are given, and these are unified within the Landau theory of phase transitions. The final chapter of the book looks at non-equilibrium systems and the way these evolve towards equilibrium. Here, fluctuations play a vital role, as is formalized in the Fluctuation-Dissipation theorem. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Imperial College Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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