Author : Richard Chace Tolman
Release : 1979-01-01
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 966/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Principles of Statistical Mechanics by : Richard Chace Tolman
Download or read book The Principles of Statistical Mechanics written by Richard Chace Tolman. This book was released on 1979-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the definitive treatise on the fundamentals of statistical mechanics. A concise exposition of classical statistical mechanics is followed by a thorough elucidation of quantum statistical mechanics: postulates, theorems, statistical ensembles, changes in quantum mechanical systems with time, and more. The final two chapters discuss applications of statistical mechanics to thermodynamic behavior. 1930 edition.