An introduction to statistical mechanics and thermodynamics / Robert H. Swendsen.

Includes index.

Table of Contents. - Ch. 1 Introduction to thermal physics. - Ch. 2 Entropy - - The Classical ideal gas. - Ch. 3 Discrete probability theory. - Ch. 4 The Classical ideal gas: configurational entropy. - Ch. 5 Continuous Random numbers. - Ch. 6The classical ideal gas: Energy dependence of entropy. - Ch. 7 Classical gases: Ideal and otherwise. - Ch. 8 Temperature, pressure, chemical potential, and all that. - Ch. 9 Thermodynamics - - The Postulates and laws of thermodynamics. - Ch. 10 Perturbations of thermodynamic state function. - Ch. 11 Thermodynamic processes. - Ch. 12 Thermodynamic potentials. - Ch. 13 The consequences of extensivity. - Ch. 14 Thermodynamic Identities. - Ch. 15 Extremum principles. - Ch. 16 Stability conditions. - Ch. 17 Phase Transitions. - Ch. 18 The nerst postulate: the third law of thermodynamics. - Ch. 19 Classical statistical mechanics - - Ensembles in classical statistical mechanics. - Ch. 20 Classical ensembles: grand and otherwise. - Ch. 21 Refining the definition of entropy. - Ch. 22 Irreversibility. - Quantum statistical mechanics. - Ch. 23 Quantum canonical ensemble. - Ch. 24 Black-Body Radiation. - Ch. 25 Ideal quantum gases. - Ch. 26 Bose-Einstein statistics. - Ch. 27 Fermi-Dirac Statistics. - Ch. 28 Insulators and semiconductors. - Ch. 29 Phase transitions and the Ising model.