Advanced Statistical Mechanics
(AP3021)Readings
Textbooks
Statistical Mechanics, From First Principles to Macroscopic Phenomena
J. Woods Halley
Cambridge University Press, 2007
ISBN-13 978-0-521-82575-7
ISBN-10 0-521-82575-X
Chapters 1-9 and 11.
Equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical thermodynamics
M. Le Bellac, F. Mortessange and C.C. Batrouni
Cambridge, 2004
This is probably the best. It is strongly advised to purchase this, as most of the problems we do are in this book.
Statistical Mechanics
R. K. Pathria, Butterworth & Heinemann
1996
ISBN 0750624698
This is rather extensive
Suggested Readings
Equilibrium statistical physics
Michael Plischke & Birger Bergersen
World Scientific 2006
ISBN 981-256-155-2 (pbk)
Statistical Physics of Fluids, Basic concepts & applications
V. I. Kalikmanov:
Springer, 2001
Primarily for classical, interacting systems
Statistical Mechanics
K. Huang
Wiley, 2nd edition (1987)
Additional Material
Debye theorem
Debye theorem.pdf
Deriving thermodynamic properties of solids from Quantum Mechanics
History of the description of the hydrogen gas
History of the description of the hydrogen gas.pdf
The rotational specific heat of molecular hydrogen in the old quantum theory.
