Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Elements of Thermodynamics
- 2 The Classical Ensembles
- 3 Aspects of Quantum Mechanics
- 4 Systems of Quantum Oscillators
- 5 Vacuum Fluctuations
- 6 The van derWaals Theory
- 7 The Grand Canonical Ensemble
- 8 Quantum Statistics
- 9 Magnetism in Matter, I
- 10 Magnetism in Matter, II
- Appendix A Probability Distributions
- Appendix B Equilibrium and Combinatorics
- Appendix C WKB at the Bottom
- Appendix D Some Analytic Functions
- Appendix E Euler–Maclaurin and Abel–Plana Formulas
- Appendix F Spin and the Pauli Equation
- Appendix G The Gn,m Operator
- References
- Index
1 - Elements of Thermodynamics
from Part I
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 January 2022
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Elements of Thermodynamics
- 2 The Classical Ensembles
- 3 Aspects of Quantum Mechanics
- 4 Systems of Quantum Oscillators
- 5 Vacuum Fluctuations
- 6 The van derWaals Theory
- 7 The Grand Canonical Ensemble
- 8 Quantum Statistics
- 9 Magnetism in Matter, I
- 10 Magnetism in Matter, II
- Appendix A Probability Distributions
- Appendix B Equilibrium and Combinatorics
- Appendix C WKB at the Bottom
- Appendix D Some Analytic Functions
- Appendix E Euler–Maclaurin and Abel–Plana Formulas
- Appendix F Spin and the Pauli Equation
- Appendix G The Gn,m Operator
- References
- Index
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- Classical and Quantum Statistical PhysicsFundamentals and Advanced Topics, pp. 3 - 16Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022