Foundations Of Statistical Mechanics

Author : O. Penrose
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483156486
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Statistical Mechanics written by O. Penrose and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2016-09-21 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Series of Monographs in Natural Philosophy, Volume 22: Foundations of Statistical Mechanics: A Deductive Treatment presents the main approaches to the basic problems of statistical mechanics. This book examines the theory that provides explicit recognition to the limitations on one's powers of observation. Organized into six chapters, this volume begins with an overview of the main physical assumptions and their idealization in the form of postulates. This text then examines the consequences of these postulates that culminate in a derivation of the fundamental formula for calculating probabilities in terms of dynamic quantities. Other chapters provide a careful analysis of the significant notion of entropy, which shows the links between thermodynamics and statistical mechanics and also between communication theory and statistical mechanics. The final chapter deals with the thermodynamic concept of entropy. This book is intended to be suitable for students of theoretical physics. Probability theorists, statisticians, and philosophers will also find this book useful.

Author : A. Ya. Khinchin
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486138739
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mathematical Foundations of Statistical Mechanics written by A. Ya. Khinchin and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phase space, ergodic problems, central limit theorem, dispersion and distribution of sum functions. Chapters include Geometry and Kinematics of the Phase Space; Reduction to the Problem of the Theory of Probability; and more.

Author : Paul Ehrenfest
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486163148
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Conceptual Foundations of the Statistical Approach in Mechanics written by Paul Ehrenfest and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic 1912 article reformulated the foundations of the statistical approach in mechanics. Largely still valid, the treatment covers older formulation of statistico-mechanical investigations, modern formulation of kineto-statistics of the gas model, and more. 1959 edition.

Author : Lawrence Sklar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521558815
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Physics and Chance written by Lawrence Sklar and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawrence Sklar offers a comprehensive, non-technical introduction to statistical mechanics and attempts to understand its foundational elements.

Author : R. Jancel
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483186261
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Classical and Quantum Statistical Mechanics written by R. Jancel and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foundations of Classical and Quantum Statistical Mechanics details the theoretical foundation the supports the concepts in classical and quantum statistical mechanics. The title discusses the various problems set by the theoretical justification of statistical mechanics methods. The text first covers the the ergodic theory in classical statistical mechanics, and then proceeds to tackling quantum mechanical ensembles. Next, the selection discusses the the ergodic theorem in quantum statistical mechanics and probability quantum ergodic theorems. The selection also details H-theorems and kinetic equations in classical and quantum statistical mechanics. The book will be of great interest to students, researchers, and practitioners of physics, chemistry, and engineering.

Author : W.T. Grandy Jr.
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400938675
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Statistical Mechanics written by W.T. Grandy Jr. and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a certain sense this book has been twenty-five years in the writing, since I first struggled with the foundations of the subject as a graduate student. It has taken that long to develop a deep appreciation of what Gibbs was attempting to convey to us near the end of his life and to understand fully the same ideas as resurrected by E.T. Jaynes much later. Many classes of students were destined to help me sharpen these thoughts before I finally felt confident that, for me at least, the foundations of the subject had been clarified sufficiently. More than anything, this work strives to address the following questions: What is statistical mechanics? Why is this approach so extraordinarily effective in describing bulk matter in terms of its constituents? The response given here is in the form of a very definite point of view-the principle of maximum entropy (PME). There have been earlier attempts to approach the subject in this way, to be sure, reflected in the books by Tribus [Thermostat ics and Thermodynamics, Van Nostrand, 1961], Baierlein [Atoms and Information Theory, Freeman, 1971], and Hobson [Concepts in Statistical Mechanics, Gordon and Breach, 1971].

Author : Richard Chace Tolman
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486638966
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Principles of Statistical Mechanics written by Richard Chace Tolman and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 700 pages. 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.

Author : Aleksandr I?Akovlevich Khinchin
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486601471
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mathematical Foundations of Statistical Mechanics written by Aleksandr I?Akovlevich Khinchin and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1949-01-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phase space, ergodic problems, central limit theorem, dispersion and distribution of sum functions. Chapters include Geometry and Kinematics of the Phase Space; Ergodic Problem; Reduction to the Problem of the Theory of Probability; Application of the Central Limit Theorem; Ideal Monatomic Gas; The Foundation of Thermodynamics; and more.

Author : Phil Attard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199662762
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics written by Phil Attard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title builds from basic principles to advanced techniques, and covers the major phenomena, methods, and results of time-dependent systems. It is a pedagogic introduction, a comprehensive reference manual, and an original research monograph--

Author : Meir Hemmo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107019680
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Road to Maxwell's Demon written by Meir Hemmo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A philosophical perspective to statistical mechanics for graduate students and researchers in the foundations and philosophy of physics.