Statistical Mechanics

Kerson Huang is Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA, and a leading authority on quantum physics. He is a highly experienced textbook writer and has written Statistical Mechanics, also published by Wiley. Professor Huang?s research interests focus on Bose-Einstein condensates and non-renormalizable theories.

• The Laws of Thermodynamics. Some Applications of Thermodynamics. The Problem of Kinetic Theory. The Equilibrium State of a Dilute Gas. Transport Phenomena. Classical Statistical Mechanics. Canonical Ensemble and Grand Canonical Ensemble. Quantum Statistical Mechanics. General Properties of the Partition Function. Approximate Methods. Fermi Systems. Bose Systems. Superfluids. Ising Model. Onsager Solution. Critical Phenomena. The Landau Approach. Renormalization Group. Appendix. Index.