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Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991001908479707536

Autore

Gould, Harvey

Titolo

Statistical and thermal physics : with computer applications / Harvey Gould and Jan Tobochnik

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2010

ISBN

9780691137445 (acid-free paper)

Descrizione fisica

xvii, 511 p. : ill. ; 26 cm

Classificazione

LC QC174.8

53.1.6

Altri autori (Persone)

Tobochnik, Janauthor

Disciplina

530.13

Soggetti

Statistical physics

Thermodynamics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index

Nota di contenuto

From microscopic to macroscopic behavior -- Thermodynamic concepts and processes -- Concepts of probability -- Methodology of statistical mechanics -- Magnetic systems -- Many-particle systems -- Chemical potential and phase equilibria -- Classical gases and liquids -- Critical phenomena : Landau theory and the renormalization group method