Customized Complete Statistical Physics

Download or read book Customized Complete Statistical Physics written by Frederick Reif and published by McGraw-Hill Science, Engineering & Mathematics. This book was released on 1998-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This last volume of the Berkeley Physics Course is devoted to the study of large-scale systems consisting of many atoms or molecules: thus it provides an introduction to the subjects of statistical mechanics, kinetic theory, thermo- dynamics, and heat. The approach is not patterned upon the historical development of these subjects and does not pro- ceed along conventional lines. The aim has been to adopt a modern point of view and to show, in as systematic and simple way as possible, how the basic notions of atomic theory lead to a conceptual framework capable of describing and predicting the properties of macroscopic systems.