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by Oliver Penrose
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ISBN: 0486438708 Dover Publications Price: $18.95 |
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Starting with primary physical assumptions and their idealization in the form of postulates, this text examines the consequences of these postulates, culminating in the derivation of the fundamental formulas for calculating probabilities in terms of dynamical quantities and concluding with an analysis of the notion of entropy. Solutions. 1970 edition.
Unabridged republication of the edition published by Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1970.
Table of Contents for Foundations of Statistical Mechanics: A Deductive Treatment
| I. Basic Assumptions | |||||||
| II. Probability Theory | |||||||
| III. The Gibbs Ensemble | |||||||
| IV. Probabilities from Dynamics | |||||||
| V. Boltzmann Entropy | |||||||
| VI. Statistical Entropy | |||||||
| Solutions to the Exercises. Index. |