Statistical Physics An Advanced Approach with Applications /

• Main Author: Honerkamp, Josef (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Edition: 3rd ed. 2012.
• Series: Graduate Texts in Physics,
• Subjects: Physics.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Statistics.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.; Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences.

The application of statistical methods to physics is essential. This unique book on statistical physics offers an advanced approach with numerous applications to the modern problems students are confronted with. Therefore the text contains more concepts and methods in statistics than the student wou...

Table of Contents:

• Statistical Physics is more than Statistical Mechanics
• Part I: Modeling of Statistical Systems
• Random Variables: Fundamentals of Probability Theory and Statistics
• Random Variables in State Space: Classical Statistical Mechanics of Fluids
• Random Fields: Textures and Classical Statistical Mechanics of Spin Systems
• Time-Dependent Random Variables: Classical Stochastic Processes
• Quantum Random Systems
• Changes of External Conditions
• Part II: Analysis of Statistical Systems
• Estimation of Parameters
• Signal Analysis: Estimation of Spectra
• Estimators Based on a Probability Distribution for the Parameters
• Identification of Stochastic Models from Observations
• Estimating the Parameters of a Hidden Stochastic Model
• Statistical Tests and Classification Methods
• Appendix: Random Number Generation for Simulating Realizations of Random Variables
• Problems
• Hints and Solutions.