Problems on Statistical Mechanics (Graduate Student Series in Physics) 1st Edition by D.A.R Dalvit (PDF)

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A thorough understanding of statistical mechanics depends strongly on the insights and manipulative skills that are acquired through the solving of problems. Problems on Statistical Mechanics provides over 120 problems with model solutions, illustrating both basic principles and applications that range from solid-state physics to cosmology. An introductory chapter provides a summary of the basic concepts and results that are needed to tackle the problems, and also serves to establish the notation that is used throughout the book. The problems themselves occupy five chapters, progressing from the simpler aspects of thermodynamics and equilibrium statistical ensembles to the more challenging ideas associated with strongly interacting systems and nonequilibrium processes. Comprehensive solutions to all of the problems are designed to illustrate efficient and elegant problem-solving techniques. Where appropriate, the authors incorporate extended discussions of the points of principle that arise in the course of the solutions. The appendix provides useful mathematical formulae.

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Editorial Reviews: Review “The best way to learn a skill is by active practice. This wonderful collection of statistical mechanics problems, compiled by the trio, supplies a host of interesting questions and carefully worked-out solutions. Anyone with a basic background in statistical mechanics and thermodynamics can pick up the book and start practice sessions.” – Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen, Mathematics, Physics and Engineering

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⭐It is usually said that you won’t learn much from a book of solved exercises, but the explanations in this book use the problem as an excuse to teach you the general theory, actually making you able to solve other problems different from the ones there. And you must recall that in this subject there is not a “simple and condensed” theory, but a varied, big and complex collection of theories, approaches and recipes.For example, enjoy: the specific heat of a gas of particles with internal degrees of freedom (3.18, 3.19 and others), working out the Fermi and Bose statistics from the beginning (4.2, 4.3), vibration of a chain and of a crystal/Debye model (4.8-4.11), Bose-Einstein Condensation (4.12, 4.15), Ising problems (5.14 and following; 5.22 is a useful 2-dimensional Ising).Note for UBA students (Buenos Aires): this book is ideal for Fisica Teorica 3, specially for statistical ensembles (chap. 3), quantum statistics (chap. 4) and the topics that appear in chap. 5 (but for transport processes and Brownian motion you should also keep an eye on the theory’s books – Huang and Reichl). Many of the exercises that appear in the practices are solved here, and this is your salvation if your teachers do not solve exercises in the blackboard (or if they are bad at it). You will not only pass the partial tests but actually learn things, specially subtle stuff that goes unnoticed in the theoretical classes, like realizing which are the quantum numbers involved and which are their values, or which is exactly the meaning of all the sum symbols that appear everywhere all the time.

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