Introduction to Statistical Thermodynamics A Molecular Perspective

Part I Microscopic and Macroscopic Theories.- Why Statistical Thermodynamics?.- Energies of Molecules.- Dynamics of molecules.- The laws of thermodynamics.- Principle of maximum entropy.- Part II Fundamentals of Classical Statistical Thermodynamics.- The microscopic entropy.- The Boltzmann distribution.- The canonical distribution.- The canonical ensemble.- Non-interacting and interacting systems.- Part III Application of Classical Statistical Thermodynamics.- State sum (partition function) for non-interacting systems.- Application to ideal gases of polyatomic molecules.- Chemical equilibria and kinetics.- Application to solid bodies.- Application to 2-level systems: spin systems.- Spatial distributions.- Thermodynamics of Real Gases, Liquids and Polymers.- Part IV Quantum statistics and the electronic structure of molecules.- Quantum Statistics.- Electron densities and electron correlations.- Wave function based methods.- Density Functional Theory (DFT).- Non-covalent interactions.