Lectures on Statistical Mechanics

by Michael George Bowler

Book Overview

Anyone dissatisfied with the almost ritual dullness of many 'standard' texts in statistical mechanics will be grateful for the lucid explanation and generally reassuring tone. Aimed at securing firm foundations for equilibrium statistical mechanics, topics of great subtlety are presented transparently and enthusiastically. Very little mathematical preparation is required beyond elementary calculus and prerequisites in physics are limited to some elementary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0080265154
• ISBN13: 9780080265155
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Pergamon Title
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.