Since completing his PhD at Princeton University, Lawrence S. Schulman has taught at Indiana University and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and is currently a Professor of Physics at Clarkson University. His research interests span statistical physics, condensed matter physics, quantum mechanics and cosmology. He has contributed to diverse areas from galactic morphology to the arrow of time and has authored two other books and numerous articles in these fields. He is fascinated by the miracle of statistical mechanics.

This book has a good mix of interesting topics and shows the breadth of application of the statistical mechanics concepts.

• 1: Introduction 2: Ideal Gas 3: Rubber Bands 4: Percolitis 5: Ferromagnetism 6: Maximum Entropy Methods 7: Power Laws 8: Universality, Renormalization and Critical Phenomena 9: Social Sciences 10: Biological Sciences 11: Physical Sciences Free

Since completing his PhD at Princeton University, Lawrence S. Schulman has taught at Indiana University and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and is currently a Professor of Physics at Clarkson University. His research interests span statistical physics, condensed matter physics, quantum mechanics and cosmology. He has contributed to diverse areas from galactic morphology to the arrow of time and has authored two other books and numerous articles in these fields. He is fascinated by the miracle of statistical mechanics.

This book has a good mix of interesting topics and shows the breadth of application of the statistical mechanics concepts.

• 1: Introduction 2: Ideal Gas 3: Rubber Bands 4: Percolitis 5: Ferromagnetism 6: Maximum Entropy Methods 7: Power Laws 8: Universality, Renormalization and Critical Phenomena 9: Social Sciences 10: Biological Sciences 11: Physical Sciences Free