Statistical Mechanics Made Simple
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (883 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 9812779094 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 360 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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"BEWARE: false advertising" according to Darth Vader. I recently received this advertisement from World Scientific:----------------------------------------------I am pleased to inform you that we have published some importantPhysics textbooks for 1st and 2nd year undergraduates. A fewgood examples are :-7) Statistical Mechanics Made Simple by Daniel Mattis (Utah)----------------------------------------------I teach Stat Mech to 2nd year undergrads (engineers), and I can saywith confidence that this book is completely inappropriate forstudents at that level.
These additions allow a more coherent picture of thermal physics to emerge. Additional figures have been included throughout, as have new problems. This book illustrates through myriad examples the principles and logic used in extending the simple laws of idealized Newtonian physics and quantum physics into the real world of noise and thermal fluctuations. It should better serve the contemporary student, while offering to the instructor a wider selection of topics from which to craft lectures on topics ranging from thermodynamics and random matrices to thermodynamic Green functions and critical exponents, from the propagation of sound in s