Statistical Mechanics: Volume 4 of Pauli Lectures on Physics (Volume 4) (Dover Books on Physics)

Wolfgang Pauli

ISBN 10: 0486414604 / ISBN 13: 9780486414607

Editore: Dover Publications, 2000

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• Titolo: Statistical Mechanics: Volume 4 of Pauli Lectures on Physics (Volume 4) (Dover Books on Physics)
• Editore: Dover Publications
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0486414604
• ISBN 13: 9780486414607
• Rilegatura: paperback
• Condizione: Very Good

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Riassunto

In the 1950s, the distinguished theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli delivered a landmark series of lectures at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. His comprehensive coverage of the fundamentals of classical and modern physics was painstakingly recorded not only by his students but also by a number of collaborators whose carefully edited transcriptions resulted in a remarkable six-volume work.
This volume, the fourth in the series, represents a concise course on statistical mechanics, centering on the historic development of the basic ideas and on the logical structure of the theory. Major chapter headings include General Statistical Mechanics, Brownian Motion, and Quantum Statistics.
Originally published in 1973, the text remains an important resource thanks to Pauli's manner of presentation. As Victor F. Weisskopf notes in the Foreword to the series, Pauli's style is "commensurate to the greatness of its subject in its clarity and impact. . . . Pauli's lectures show how physical ideas can be presented clearly and in good mathematical form, without being hidden in formalistic expertise." Alone or as part of the complete set, this volume represents a solid introduction to statistical mechanics that will be invaluable to individuals, as well as to libraries and other institutions.

Contenuti

Foreword by Victor F. Weisskopf Preface by the Editor 1. Stosszahlansatz 1. Concepts from the elementary kinetic theory of gases 2. Collision laws 3. Change of the distribution function due to collisions 4. Stationary distributions 5. Transport phenomena 6. Meaning of the H-theorem. Temperature 7. Statistics of an ideal gas 2. General Statistical Mechanics 8. Phase space and Liouville's theorem 9. Microcanonical ensemble 10. Canonical ensemble 11. Thermodynamic functions of state 12. General density distributions 13. Applications 14. Grand canonical ensemble 3. Brownian Motion 15. Introduction 16. Langevin's theory 17. Theory of H. A. Lorentz 18. Einstein's theory 4. Quantum Statistics 19. Theory of blackbody radiation 20. Theory of solids 21. Adiabatic invariants 22. Vapor pressure. Nernst's theorem 23. Einstein's theory of blackbody radiation 24. Quantum statistics of identical particles Bibliography Appendix. Comments by the Editor Index