Hemisphere Publishing Corporation, 1979. — 409 p.
This book has been developed to meet the needs of advanced engineering undergraduate and beginning graduate students for an introduction to statistical thermodynamics. The student that we have envisioned has had at least an introductory course in thermodynamics; he may or may not have had a course in modern physics; and he has had no physics beyond that level. Nor do we presuppose a course in statistics or a mathematics background beyond that which he normally would have developed for his upper-division engineering work. Such a student, although he is capable of learning fairly rapidly, must start at the beginning level as far as the concepts of quantum mechanics and modern physics are concerned.
During the past seven years we first developed class notes, and subsequently organized them into the present text. This text has been developed in close conjunction with classes at the University of California at Berkeley, Washington State University at Pullman, and the University of Kentucky at Lexington.
