Probability in Physics An Introductory Guide /

• Main Author: Lawrence, Andy (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, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics,
• Subjects: Physics.; Probabilities.; Statistics .; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; Complex Systems.; Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems.

This textbook presents an introduction to the use of probability in physics, treating introductory ideas of both statistical physics and of statistical inference, as well the importance of probability in information theory, quantum mechanics, and stochastic processes, in a unified manner. The book a...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: The Basics
• Randomness and Probability
• Distributions, Moments, and Errors
• Part II: Frequency Distributions in the Physical World
• Counting the Ways: Arrangements and Subsets
• Counting Statistics: Binomial and Poisson Distributions
• Combining Many Factors: The Gaussian Distribution
• Distributions Arising from Random Processes in Time
• Part III: Probabilistic Inference: Reasoning in the Presence of Uncertainty
• Hypothesis Testing
• Parameter Estimation
• Inference With Two Variables: Correlation Testing and Line Fitting
• Model Fitting
• Part IV: Selected Topics
• Information, Uncertainty, and Surprise
• Erratic Time Series
• Probability in Quantum Physics
• Entropy, Complexity, and the Arrow of Time
• Solutions.