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Statistical mechanics :



x, 246 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Second Reprint 2013. Content notes : 1. Statistical description of systems --
2. Evaluation of the number of microstates in the microcanonical formalism --
3. Classical statistical mechanics --
4. The microcanonical ensemble : distribution functions for ideal gases : the density matrix --
5. The Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution --
6. The Bose-Einstein distribution. Applications to some simple systems --
7. The Fermi-Dirac distribution : some ideal Fermi systems --
8. The Canonical ensemble : some applications --
9. The grand canonical ensemble --
10. Applications.

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