Lectures on Statistical Mechanics

These lecture notes cover Statistical Mechanics at the level of advanced undergraduates or postgraduates. After a review of thermodynamics, statistical ensembles are introduced, then applied to ideal gases, including degenerate gases of bosons and fermions, followed by a treatment of systems with interaction, of real gases, and of stochastic processes.The book offers a comprehensive and detailed, as well as self-contained, account of material that can and has been covered in a one-semester course for students with a basic understanding of thermodynamics and a solid background in classical mechanics.Contents: PrefaceGlossaryReview of Selected Topics in ThermodynamicsStatistical EnsemblesIdeal GasesSystems with InteractionPerturbation TheoryReal GasesStochastic ProcessesExercises with HintsIndex
Readership: Undergraduate and graduate students in Physics.Statistical Mechanics;Statistical Physics;Thermodynamics;Statistical Ensembles;Partition Functions;Bose–Einstein Condensate;Stochastic Processes0Key Features:The presentation does not skip the technical details which renders the book particularly well-suited for the self-studying student