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040			_aISI Library
082			_223 _bG942 _a530.13
100			_aGuha, Evelyn
245			_aStatistical mechanics : _ban introduction / _cEvelyn Guha.
260			_aNew Delhi : _bNarosa, _cc2008.
300			_ax, 246 p. : _b ill. ; _c25 cm.
500			_aSecond Reprint 2013.
504			_aIncludes index.
505			_a1. 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.
520			_aThis text has been written keeping in mind the student who encounters statistical mechanics for the first time. Starting with a statistical view of the physical world, the basic concepts of macrostates and microstates of a system are discussed with much care using many examples to illustrate abstract ideas.
650			_aStatistical mechanics.
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