Author: Tolman, Richard C.

Price: $23.99

Category:Engineering & Transportation
Publication Date:2010-09-16T00:00:01Z
Pages:704
Binding:Paperback
ISBN:10:0486638960
ISBN:13:9780486638966
This is the definitive treatise on the fundamentals of statistical mechanics. A concise exposition of classical statistical mechanics is followed by a thorough elucidation of quantum statistical mechanics: postulates, theorems, statistical ensembles, changes in quantum mechanical systems with time, and more. The final two chapters discuss applications of statistical mechanics to thermodynamic behavior. 1930 edition.