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FOUNDATIONS OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS: A DEDUCTIVE TREATMENT
OLIVER PENROSE
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Editora Dover
Área FÍSICA MATEMÁTICA
Idioma Inglês
Número de páginas 272
Edição 2005
ISBN 0486438708
EAN 9780486438702
This volume demonstrates the manner in which statistical mechanics can be built up deductively from a small number of well-defined physical assumptions. Starting with the primary physical assumptions and their idealization in the form of postulates, it examines the consequences of these postulates, culminating in the derivation of the fundamental formulas for calculating probabilities in terms of dynamical quantities and concluding with an analysis of the notion of entropy. Intended for readers with a knowledge of physics at the advanced undergraduate and graduate levels, this text considers topics of interest not only to physicists, but also to statisticians, communication theorists, chemists, and mathematicians. 1970 ed. Solutions to the Exercises. Index.
I. Basic Assumptions
II. Probability Theory
III. The Gibbs Ensemble
IV. Probabilities from Dynamics
V. Boltzmann Entropy
VI. Statistical Entropy
Solutions to the Exercises. Index