Graduate-level text covers properties of the Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein distributions; the interrelated subjects of fluctuations, thermal noise, and Brownian movement; and the thermodynamics of irreversible processes. 1958 edition.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Fundamental Principles of Statistical Mechanics
2. Fluctuations, Noise, and Irreversible Thermodynamics
3. Kinetic Methods and Transport Theory
Appendix.