Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics
by Walter Greiner, Ludwig Neise, Horst Stöcker · first published 1995
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Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics covers: Thermodynamics - basic definitions of thermodynamics, equilibrium, state variables - the first and second laws - phase transitions and chemical reactions - thermodynamic potentials Statistical Mechanics - statistics of microscopic states and connection to the entropy - the microcanonical, canonical and grand canonical ensembles - applications of Boltzmann statistics Quantum Statistics - the density operator - many-particle wave functions - ideal quantum systems - the ideal Bose gas and applications to blackbody radiation, Kirchhoff's law, and latt
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Direct pdf link: http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/qm/389.pdf N.B. this is a grad level course. The same author has another set of notes on QM intended for upper-division undergraduate physics majors here: http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/qmech/qmech.pdf He also has an intermediate level course on Thermodynamics & Statistical Mechanics here: http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/sm1/sta
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