Statistical Physics
Path Integrals in Quantum Mechanics, Statistics, and Polymer Physics, and Financial Markets, Third Edition - Hagen Kleinert
Title: Path Integrals in Quantum Mechanics, Statistics, and Polymer Physics, and Financial Markets, Third Edition
Author: Hagen Kleinert
Pages: 1504 pages
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company; 3 edition (March 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9812381074
ISBN-13: 978-9812381071
Book Description
Offers the theory and applications of path integrals, solving them in a variety of non-trivial quantum-mechanical systems. Also discusses the relevance of path integrals to [...]
Statistical Thermodynamics Of Surfaces, Interfaces And Membranes - Samuel Safran
Title: Statistical Thermodynamics Of Surfaces, Interfaces And Membranes
Author: Samuel Safran
Pages: 288 pages
Publisher: Westview Press (April 20, 1994)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0201626330
ISBN-13: 978-0201626339
Book Description
Understanding the structural and thermodynamic properties of surfaces, interfaces, and membranes is important for both fundamental and practical reasons. Complex fluids and solids, important in the development of new materials, cannot be designed using trial [...]
Elementary Statistical Physics - Charles Kittel
Title: Elementary Statistical Physics
Author: Charles Kittel
Pages: 240 pages
Publisher: John Wiley&Son (1958)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0486435148
ISBN-13: 978-0486435145
Book Description
Geared toward graduate students in physics, this text covers such important topics as the properties of the Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein distributions; the interrelated subjects of fluctuations, thermal noise, and Brownian movement; and the thermodynamics of irreversible processes. Most sections include illustrative [...]
Concepts in Thermal Physics - Stephen Blundell, Katherine Blundell
Title: Concepts in Thermal Physics
Authors: Stephen Blundell, Katherine Blundell
Pages: 488 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (October 12, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0198567707
ISBN-13: 978-0198567707
Book Description
An understanding of thermal physics is crucial to much of modern physics, chemistry and engineering. This book provides a modern introduction to the main principles that are foundational to thermal physics, thermodynamics and statistical [...]
Statistical Physics of Crystal Growth - Yukio Saito
Title: Statistical Physics of Crystal Growth
Author: Yukio Saito
Pages: 179 pages
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company; 1st edition (January 15, 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9810228341
ISBN-13: 978-9810228347
Book Description
This book gives a systematic overview on the scientific fundamentals of crystal growth from the classical phenomenological description to the recent theoretical contributions of statistical physics such as studies on surface roughening and [...]
Statistical Mechanics of Solids (Monographs on the Physics and Chemistry of Materials) - Louis A. Girifalco
Title: Statistical Mechanics of Solids (Monographs on the Physics and Chemistry of Materials)
Author: Louis A. Girifalco
Pages: 544 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (September 21, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0195119657
ISBN-13: 978-0195119657
Book Description
This monograph, suitable for use as an advanced text, presents the statistical mechanics of solids from the perspective of the material properties of the solid state. The [...]
Statistical Thermodynamics - Erwin Schrodinger
Title: Statistical Thermodynamics
Author: Erwin Schrodinger
Pages: 95 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1948
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0486661016
ISBN-13: 978-0486661018
Book Description
Nobel Laureate’s brilliant attempt to develop a simple, unified standard method of dealing with all cases of statistical thermodynamics (classical, quantum, Bose-Einstein, Fermi-Dirac, etc.). Discussions of Nernst theorem, Planck’s oscillator, fluctuations, the n-particle problem, problem of radiation, much more.
Statistical Physics of Fields - Mehran Kardar
Title: Statistical Physics of Fields
Author: Mehran Kardar
Pages: 370 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (June 25, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 052187341X
ISBN-13: 978-0521873413
Book Description
While many scientists are familiar with fractals, fewer are familiar with scale-invariance and universality which underly the ubiquity of their shapes. These properties may emerge from the collective behaviour of simple fundamental constituents, and are [...]
Monte Carlo Methods in Statistical Physics - M. E. J. Newman, G. T. Barkema
Title: Monte Carlo Methods in Statistical Physics
Authors: M. E. J. Newman, G. T. Barkema
Pages: 496 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (April 15, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0198517971
ISBN-13: 978-0198517979
Book Description
This book provides an introduction to Monte Carlo simulations in classical statistical physics and is aimed both at students beginning work in the field and at more experienced researchers [...]
Intermediate Heat Transfer (Mechanical Engineering) - Kau-Fui Vincent Wong
Title: Intermediate Heat Transfer (Mechanical Engineering)
Author: Kau-Fui Vincent Wong
Pages: 432 pages
Publisher: CRC; 1 edition (January 15, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0824742362
ISBN-13: 978-0824742362
Book Description
Equipping practicing engineers and students with the tools to independently assess and understand complex material on the topic, this text is an ideal precursor to advanced heat transfer courses. Intermediate Heat Transfer discusses numerical analysis [...]