文档介绍：Ludwig Boltzmann, 1844-1906, whose H theorem opened the door
to an understanding of the macroscopic world on the basis of
molecular dynamics.
SECOND EDITION
STATISTICAL
KERSON HUANG
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Huang, Kerson, 1928-
Statistical mechanics.
Bibliography: p.
Includes indexes.
1. Statistical mechanics. I. Title.
1987 '3 86-32466
ISBN 0-471-81518-7
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To Rosemary
This book is an outgrowth of a year course in statistical mechanics that I have
been giving at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is directed mainly to
graduate students in physics.
In this book the starting point of statistical mechanics is taken to be certain
phenomenological postulates, whose relation to quantum mechanics I try to state
as clearly as I can, and whose physical consequences I try to derive as Gmply and
directly as I can.
Before the subject of statistical mechanics proper is presented, a brief but
self-contained discussion of thermodynamics and the classical ic theory of
gases is given. The order of this development is imperative, from a pedagogical
point of view, for two reasons. First, thermodynamics has essfully described
a large part of macroscopic experience, which is the concern of statistical
mechanics. It has done so not on the basis of molecular dy