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by Charles Kittel
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ISBN: 0486435148 Dover Publications Price: $16.95 |
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Geared toward graduate students in physics, this text covers such important topics as the properties of the Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein distributions; the interrelated subjects of fluctuations, thermal noise, and Brownian movement; and the thermodynamics of irreversible processes. Most sections include illustrative problems. 1958 edition.
Unabridged republication of the edition published by John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1958.
Table of Contents for Elementary Statistical Physics
| 1. Fundamental Principles of Statistical Mechanics | |||||||
| 2. Fluctuations, Noise, and Irreversible Thermodynamics | |||||||
| 3. Kinetic Methods and Transport Theory | |||||||
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