Microstates, Entropy and Quanta An Introduction to Statistical Mechanics /

• Main Author: Koks, Don (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Thermodynamics.; Physics.; Signal processing.; Image processing.; Speech processing systems.; Complex Systems.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems.

Statistical mechanics: the bane of many a physics student. But when pared back to its underlying concepts and built from the ground up, the field takes on a charm of its own, and embraces a wide variety of physical phenomena. This book presents a straightforward introduction to the key concepts in s...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• 1 Preliminary Ideas of Counting, and Some Useful Mathematics
• 2 Accessible States and the Fundamental Postulate of Statistical Mechanics
• 3 The Laws of Thermodynamics
• 4 The First Law in Detail
• 5 The Non-Isolated System: the Boltzmann Distribution
• 6 The Motion of Gas Particles, and Transport Processes
• 7. Introductory Quantum Statistics
• 8 Fermion Statistics in Metals
• 9 Boson Statistics in Blackbody Radiation
• Index.