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Introduction to Modern Statistical Mechanics. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-504277-8. [78] [79] [80] W.A. Wassam, Jr. (2002). Statistical Mechanics : Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology, Third Edition, Volume 15. Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-12-227410-7. Bowley, Roger and Sanchez, Mariana (2000). Introductory Statistical ...
The series presently stands at four books (as of early 2023) covering the first four of six core courses devoted to: classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, special relativity and classical field theory, general relativity, cosmology, and statistical mechanics. Videos for all of these courses are available online.
The series includes the volumes Mechanics, Mechanics of Deformable Bodies, Electrodynamics, Optics, Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, and Partial Differential Equations in Physics. Focusing on one subject each semester, the lectures formed a three-year cycle of courses that Sommerfeld repeatedly taught at the University of Munich for ...
Gibbs' book simplified statistical mechanics into a treatise of 207 pages. At the same time, Gibbs fully generalized and expanded statistical mechanics into the form in which it is known today. Gibbs showed how statistical mechanics could be used even to extend thermodynamics beyond classical thermodynamics, to systems of any number of degrees ...
In physics, Liouville's theorem, named after the French mathematician Joseph Liouville, is a key theorem in classical statistical and Hamiltonian mechanics.It asserts that the phase-space distribution function is constant along the trajectories of the system—that is that the density of system points in the vicinity of a given system point traveling through phase-space is constant with time.
In statistical mechanics, Maxwell–Boltzmann statistics describes the distribution of classical material particles over various energy states in thermal equilibrium. It is applicable when the temperature is high enough or the particle density is low enough to render quantum effects negligible.
Styer has authored books on relativity theory, statistical mechanics and quantum mechanics, as well as numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals, including scientific articles, book reviews and didactically-oriented articles. He also expanded the book Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals by Richard P. Feynman and Albert R. Hibbs. Books:
All classical statistical physics is based on the concentration of measure phenomena: The fundamental idea (‘theorem’) about equivalence of ensembles in thermodynamic limit (Gibbs, 1902 [4] and Einstein, 1902-1904 [5] [6] [7]) is exactly the thin shell concentration theorem.