Donald A. McQuarrie

Statistical Mechanics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Statistical Mechanics is the extended version of McQuarrie's earlier text - Statistical Thermodynamics [USB 1984]. Statistical Mechanics [previously published by Longman Education] is a renowned accessible introduction to the subject. It contains a large number of problems at the end of each chapter to help students understand the material and to introduce them to selected extensions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Freeman / Macmillan Education
• 2000.
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 271mm x 185mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 1330g
• ISBN-13: 9781891389153
• ISBN-10: 1891389157
• Artikelnr.: 22414896

Autorenporträt

DONALD A. McQUARRIE, University of California, Davis

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction and Review.- The Canonical Ensemble.- Other Ensembles and Fluctuations.- Boltzmann Statistics, Fermi-Dirac Statistics, and Bose-Einstein Statistics.- Ideal Monatomic Gas.- Ideal Diatomic Gas.- Classical Statistical Mechanics.- Ideal Polyatomic Gas.- Chemical Equilibrium.- Quantum Statistics.- Crystals.- Imperfect Gases.- Distribution Functions in Classical Monatomic Liquids.- Perturbation Theories of Liquids.- Solutions of Strong Electrolytes.- Kinetic Theory of Gases and Molecular Collisions.- Continuum Mechanics.- Kinetic Theory of Gases and the Boltzmann Equation.-Transport Processes in Dilute Gases.-Theory of Brownian Motion.- The Time-Correlation Function Formalism, I.- The Time-Correlation Function Formalism, II.- Appendix A. Values of Some Physical Constants and Energy Conversion Factors.- Appendix B. Fourier Integrals and the Dirac Delta Function.- Appendix C. Debye Heat Capacity Function.- Appendix D. Hard-Sphere Radial Distribution Function.- Appendix E. Tables for the m-6-8 Potential.- Appendix F. Derivation of the Golden Rule of Perturbation Theory.- Appendix G. The Dirac BRA and KET Notation.- Appendix H. The Heisenberg Time-Dependent Representation.- Appendix I. The Poynting Flux Vector.- Appendix J. The Radiation Emitted by an Oscillating Dipole.- Appendix K. Dielectric Constant and Absorption.