Statistical mechanics

Pauli lectures on physics - volume 4

Wolfgang Pauli

132 pages, parution le 01/01/2000

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Résumé

Important text represents a concise course on the subject, centering on the historic development of the basic ideals and the logical structure of the theory, with particular emphasis on Brownian motion and quantum statistics. Alone or as part of the complete set, this volume represents a peerless resource that will be invaluable to individuals, as well as to libraries and other institutions.

Stosszahlansatz
- Concepts from the elementary kinetic theory of gases
- Collision laws
- Change of the distribution function due to collisions
- Stationary distributions
- Transport phenomena
- Meaning of the H-theorem, Temperature
- Statistics of an ideal gas
General Statistical Mechanics
- Phase space and Liouville's theorem
- Microcanonical ensemble
- Canonical ensemble
- Thermodynamic functions of state
- General density distributions
- Applications
- Grand canonical ensemble
Brownian Motion
- Introduction
- Langevin's theory
- Theory of H. A. Lorentz
- Einstein's theory
Quantum Statistics
- Theory of blackbody radiation
- Theory of solids
- Adiabatic invariants
- Vapor pressure. Nernst's theorem
- Einstein's theory of blackbody radiation
- Quantum statistics of identical particles
Bibliography
Appendix. Comments by the Editor
Index

L'auteur - Wolfgang Pauli

Prix Nobel de physique, Wolgang Pauli a été l'un des plus grands savants du XXe siècle, fondateur avec Bohr, Heisenberg, de Broglie et Schrödinger, de la physique quantique contemporaine.

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Dover
Auteur(s)	Wolfgang Pauli
Parution	01/01/2000
Nb. de pages	132
Format	13,5 x 21,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	155g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780486414607
ISBN13	978-0-486-41460-7