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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 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 ...
Rinaldo B. Schinazi: From Calculus to Analysis.Springer, 2011, ISBN 9780817682897, pp. 50 Michele Longo and Vincenzo Valori: The Comparison Test: Not Just for Nonnegative Series.
The second part of the text presents the foundations of classical statistical mechanics. The concept of Boltzmann's entropy is introduced and used to describe the Einstein model, the two-state system, and the polymer model. Afterwards, the different statistical ensembles are discussed from which the thermodynamics potentials are derived.
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 of freedom (including microscopic systems) and non-extensive systems.
In a crucial paper (1933), Dirac [7] explained how classical mechanics is an emergent phenomenon of quantum mechanics: destructive interference among paths with non-extremal macroscopic actions S » ħ obliterate amplitude contributions in the path integral he introduced, leaving the extremal action S class, thus the classical action path as ...
The conservation of mass is expressed locally by the fact that the flow of mass density satisfies the continuity equation: + =, where is the mass flux vector. The formulation of energy conservation is generally not in the form of a continuity equation because it includes contributions both from the macroscopic mechanical energy of the fluid flow and of the microscopic internal energy.
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.