Elements of Statistical Mechanics 3rd Edition by D. ter Haar (PDF)

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Following the Boltzmann-Gibbs approach to statistical mechanics, this new edition of Dr ter Haar’s important textbook, Elements of Statistical Mechanics, provides undergraduates and more senior academics with a thorough introduction to the subject. Each chapter is followed by a problem section and detailed bibliography. The first six chapters of the book provide a thorough introduction to the basic methods of statistical mechanics and indeed the first four may be used as an introductory course in themselves. The last three chapters offer more detail on the equation of state, with special emphasis on the van der Waals gas; the second-quantisation approach to many-body systems, with an examination of two-time temperature-dependent Green functions; phase transitions, including various approximation methods for treating the Ising model, a brief discussion of the exact solution of the two-dimensional square Ising model, and short introductions to renormalisation group methods and the Yang and Lee theory of phase transitions. In the problem section which follows each chapter the reader is asked to complete proofs of basic theory and to apply that theory to various physical situations. Each chapter bibliography includes papers which are of historical interest. A further help to the reader are the solutions to selected problems which appear at the end of the book.

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⭐I got know ter Haar from a scientfic article on foundation of statistical mechanics in Review of Modern Physics. This article discussed some important principles of Statistical Mechanics in quantum mechanics after Boltzman, Gibbs and Erenfest’s study in classical mechanics. The book is in the reference. It provides the basis of his discussion. I can not compare the greatness of ter Haar and the above 3 masters in physics, but I’m sure he is also a excellent physicist. His dealed with the problems in Statistical Mechanics in a lucid but rigorous way. It is not easy to do this for common people, but he did because he really “understood” physics. Furthermore, this book covered a very wide range of things, not only the techniques for calculation which can find in every textbook of S-M, but also the essential of S-M, its beauty, strength and problems which I think as the spirit of physics. Not every book can do this.

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