2011-2012. — 188 p.Лекции по статистической физики, по которым читается курс в Кэмбридже. В 200 страницах скомпилирован материал из лучших учебников по данной тематике.Содержание:The fundamentals of Statistical Mechanics
Introduction
The Microcanonical Endemble
The Canonical Ensemble
The Chemical Potential
Classical Gases
The Classical Partition Function
Ideal Gas
Maxwell Dtistribution
Diatomic Gas
Interacting Gas
Screening and the Debye-Hückel Model of a Plasma
Quantum Gases
Density of States
Photons: Blackbody Radiation
Phonons
The Diatomic Gas Revisited
Bosons
Fermions
Classical Thermodynamics
Temperature and the Zeroth Law
The First Law
The second Law
Thermodynamic Potentials: Free Energies and Enthalpy
The Third Law
Phase Transitions
Liquid-Gas Transition
The Ising Model
Some Exact Results for the Ising Model
Landau Theory
Landau-Ginzburg Theory
