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Mathematical Foundations of Statistical Mechanics
by A. Ya. Khinchin

ISBN: 0486601471
Dover Publications Price: $12.95
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Phase space, ergodic problems, central limit theorem, dispersion and distribution of sum functions.


Table of Contents for Mathematical Foundations of Statistical Mechanics
Preface
Chapter I. Introduction
1. A brief historical sketch
2. Methodological characterization
Chapter II. Geometry and Kinematics of the Phase Space
3. The phase space of a mechanical system
4. Theorem of Liouville
5. Theorem of Birkhoff
6. Case of metric indecomposability
7. Structure functions
8. Components of mechanical systems
Chapter III. Ergodic Problem
9. Interpretation of physical quantities in statistical mechanics
10. Fixed and free integrals
11. Brief historical sketch
12. On metric indecomposability of reduced manifolds
13. The possibility of a formulation without the use of metric indecomposability
Chapter IV. Reduction to the Problem of the Theory of Probability
14. Fundamental distribution law
15. The distribution law of a component and its energy
16. Generating functions
17. Conjugate distribute functions
18. Systems consisting of a large number of components
Chapter V. Application of the Central Limit Theorem
19. Approximate expressions of structure functions
20. The small component and its energy. Boltzmann's law
21. Mean values of the sum functions
22. Energy distribution law of the large component
23. Example of monatomic ideal gas
24. The theorem of equipartition of energy
25. A system in thermal equilibrium. Canonical distribution of Gibbs
Chapter VI. Ideal Monatomic Gas
26. Velocity distribution. Maxwell's law
27. The gas pressure
28. Physical interpretation of the parameter
29. Gas pressure in an arbitrary field of force
Chapter VII. The Foundation of Thermodynamics
30. External parameters and the mean values of external forces
31. The volume of the gas as an external parameter
32. The second law of thermodynamics
33. The properties of entropy
34. Other thermodynamical functions
Chapter VIII. Dispersion and the Distributions of Sum Functions
35. The intermolecular correlation
36. Dispersion and distribution laws of the sum functions
Appendix
The proof of the central limit theorem of the theory of probability
Notations
Index

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