Anyone dissatisfied with the almost ritual dullness of many 'standard' texts in statistical mechanics will be grateful for the lucid explanation and generally reassuring tone. Aimed at securing firm foundations for equilibrium statistical mechanics, topics of great subtlety are presented transparently and enthusiastically. Very little mathematical preparation is required beyond elementary calculus and prerequisites in physics are limited to some elementary classical thermodynamics. Suitable as a basis for a first course in statistical mechanics, the book is an ideal supplement to more conventional texts
- ISBN10 0080265162
- ISBN13 9780080265162
- Publish Date April 1982 (first published 29 January 1982)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 September 1997
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Elsevier Science & Technology
- Imprint Pergamon Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English