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| Preface | |
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| Basic ideas | |
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| The macrostate | |
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| Microstates | |
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| The averaging postulate | |
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| Distributions | |
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| The statistical method in outline | |
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| A model example | |
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| Statistical entropy and microstates | |
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| Summary | |
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| Distinguishable particles | |
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| The Thermal Equilibrium Distribution | |
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| What are [alpha] and [beta]? | |
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| A statistical definition of temperature | |
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| The boltzmann distribution and the partition function | |
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| Calculation of thermodynamic functions | |
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| Summary | |
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| Two examples | |
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| A Spin-1/2 solid | |
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| Localized harmonic oscillators | |
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| Summary | |
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| Gases: the density of states | |
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| Fitting waves into boxes | |
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| Other information for statistical physics | |
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| An example - helium gas | |
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| Summary | |
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| Gases: the distributions | |
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| Distribution in groups | |
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| Identical particles - fermions and bosons | |
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| Counting microstates for gases | |
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| The three distributions | |
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| Summary | |
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| Maxwell-Boltzmann gases | |
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| The validity of the Maxwell-Boltzmann limit | |
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| The Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution of speeds | |
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| The connection to thermodynamics | |
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| Summary | |
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| Diatomic gases | |
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| Energy contributions in diatomic gases | |
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| Heat capacity of a diatomic gas | |
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| The heat capacity of hydrogen | |
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| Summary | |
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| Fermi-Dirac gases | |
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| Properties of an ideal Fermi-Dirac gas | |
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| Application to metals | |
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| Application to helium-3 | |
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| Summary | |
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| Bose-Einstein gases | |
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| Properties of an ideal Bose-Einstein gas | |
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| Application to helium-4 | |
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| Phoney bosons | |
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| A note about cold atoms | |
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| Summary | |
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| Entropy in other situations | |
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| Entropy and disorder | |
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| An assembly at fixed temperature | |
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| Vacancies in solids | |
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| Phase transitions | |
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| Types of phase transition | |
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| Ferromagnetism of a spin-1/2 solid | |
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| Real ferromagnetic materials | |
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| Order-disorder transformations in alloys | |
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| Two new ideas | |
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| Statics or dynamics? | |
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| Ensembles - a larger view | |
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| Chemical thermodynamics | |
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| Chemical potential revisited | |
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| The grand canonical ensemble | |
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| Ideal gases in the grand ensemble | |
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| Mixed systems and chemical reactions | |
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| Dealing with interactions | |
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| Electrons in metals | |
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| Liquid helium-3: A Fermi liquid | |
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| Liquid helium-4: A Bose liquid? | |
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| Real imperfect gases | |
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| Statistics under extreme conditions | |
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| Superfluid states in Fermi-Dirac systems | |
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| Statistics in astrophysical systems | |
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| Some elementary counting problems | |
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| Some problems with large numbers | |
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| Some useful integrals | |
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| Some useful constants | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Answers to exercises | |
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| Index | |