统计物理学：导论STATISTICAL PHYSICS: AN INTRODUCTORY COURSE

This invaluable textbook is an introduction to statistical physics that has been written primarily for self-study. It provides a comprehensive approach to the main ideas of statistical physics at the level of an introductory course, starting from the kinetic theory of gases and proceeding all the way to Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac statistics. Each idea is brought out with ample motivation and clear, step-by-step, deductive exposition. The key points and methods are presented and discussed on the basis of concrete representative systems, such as the paramagnet, Einstein's solid, the diatomic gas, black body radiation, electric conductivity in metals and superfluidity.

Part I The Kinetic Theory of Gases
Chapter 1 Velocity and Position Distributions of Molecules in a Gas
Chapter 2 Brownian Motion
Chapter 3 Transport Coefficients
Part 2 Statistical Physics of a Paramagnets:
Chapter 0 Essential Background in Thermodynamics
Chapter 1 Thermodynamics with Magnetic Variables
Chapter 2 Microscopic States and Averages
Chapter 3 Isolated Paramagnet ?Microcanonical Ensemble
Chapter 4 Isolated Paramagnet ?Subsystems and Temperature
Chapter 5 Paramagnet at a Given Temperature
Chapter 6 Order, Disorder and Entropy
Chapter 7 Comparison with Experiment
Part III Statistical Physics and Thermodynamics:
Chapter 1 The Canonical Ensemble and Thermodynamics
Chapter 2 Harmonic Oscillator and Einstein Solid
Chapter 3 Statistical Mechanics of Classical Systems
Chapter 4 Statistical Mechanics of an Ideal Gas
Chapter 5 The Gibbs Paradox and the Third Law
Chapter 6 Fluctuations and Thermodynamic Quantities
Part IV From Ideal Gas to Photon Gas:
Chapter 1 An Ideal Gas of Molecules with Internal Degrees of Freedom
Chapter 2 Gases in Chemical Reactions
Chapter 3 Phonon Gas and the Debye Model
Chapter 4 Thermodynamics of Electromagnetic Radiation
Part V Of Fermions and Bosons:
Chapter 1 Grand Canonical Ensemble
Chapter 2 Statistical Mechanics of Identical Quantum Particles
Chapter 3 Electrical Conductivity in Metals
Chapter 4 Boson Gas
Index