João Paulo Casquilho, Paulo Ivo Cortez Teixeira

Introduction to Statistical Physics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Rigorous and comprehensive, this textbook introduces undergraduate students to simulation methods in statistical physics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 208mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 971g
• ISBN-13: 9781107053786
• ISBN-10: 1107053781
• Artikelnr.: 41492757

Autorenporträt

João Paulo Casquilho is an Associate Professor at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. His research work includes experimental and theoretical studies in liquid crystals rheology under applied electric or magnetic fields and dynamical systems.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Random walks
2. Review of thermodynamics
3. The postulates of statistical physics. Thermodynamic equilibrium
4. Statistical thermodynamics ¿ developments and applications
5. The classical ideal gas
6. The quantum ideal gas
7. Magnetism
8. The Ising model
9. Liquid crystals
10. Phase transitions and critical phenomena
11. Irreversible processes
Appendixes
Index.