Book,
Statistical Mechanics
Harper's Chemistry Series HarperCollins Publishing, Inc., New York, (1976)
Abstract
An advanced undergraduate/graduate text on statistical
mechanics with an emphasis on molecular
spectroscopy. Topics include: review; the canonical
ensemble; other ensembles and fluctuations; Boltzmann
statistics; Fermi-Dirac statistics and Bose-Einstein
statistics; ideal monatomic gas; ideal diatomic gas;
classical statistical mechanics; ideal polyatomic gas;
chemical equilibrium; quantum statistics; crystals;
imperfect gases; distribution functions in classical
monatomic liquids; perturbation theories of liquids;
solutions of strong electrolytes; kinetic theory of
gases and molecular collisions; continuum mechanics;
kinetic theory of gases and the Boltzmann equation;
transport processes in dilute gases; theory of
Brownian motion; the time-correlation function
formalism I, and the time-correlation function
formalism II. Appendices on physical constants,
Fourier integrals and the Dirac delta function, Debye
heat capacity function, hard-sphere radial
distribution function --- tables for the m-6--8
potential, derivation of the golden rule of
perturbation theory, the Dirac bra and ket notation,
the Heisenberg time-dependent representation, the
Poynting flux vector, the radiation emitted by an
oscillating dipole, and dielectric constant and
absorption, are also included.
