Statistical Physics: Volume 5, Volume 5

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Elsevier, Oct 22, 2013 - Science - 544 pages
A lucid presentation of statistical physics and thermodynamics which develops from the general principles to give a large number of applications of the theory.
 

Contents

CHAPTER I THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF STATISTICAL PHYSICS
1
CHAPTER II THERMODYNAMIC QUANTITIES
34
CHAPTER III THE GIBBS DISTRIBUTION
79
CHAPTER IV IDEAL GASES
111
CHAPTER V THE FERMI AND BOSE DISTRIBUTIONS
158
CHAPTER VI SOLIDS
191
CHAPTER VII NONIDEAL GASES
225
CHAPTER VIII PHASE EQUILIBRIUM
251
CHAPTER X CHEMICAL REACTIONS
305
CHAPTER XI PROPERTIES OF MATTER AT VERY HIGH DENSITY
317
CHAPTER XII FLUCTUATIONS
333
CHAPTER XIII THE SYMMETRY OF CRYSTALS
401
CHAPTER XIV PHASE TRANSITIONS OF THE SECOND KIND AND CRITICAL PHENOMENA
446
CHAPTER XV SURFACES
517
INDEX
539
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CHAPTER IX SOLUTIONS
263

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About the author (2013)

Lev Davidovich Landau was born on January 22, 1908 in Baku, U.S.S.R (now Azerbaijan). A brilliant student, he had finished secondary school by the age of 13. He enrolled in the University of Baku a year later, in 1922, and later transferred to the University of Leningrad, from which he graduated with a degree in physics. Landau did graduate work in physics at Leningrad's Physiotechnical Institute, at Cambridge University in England, and at the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Denmark, where he met physicist Neils Bohr, whose work he greatly admired. Landau worked in the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons program during World War II, and then began a teaching career. Considered to be the founder of a whole school of Soviet theoretical physicists, Landau was honored with numerous awards, including the Lenin Prize, the Max Planck Medal, the Fritz London Prize, and, most notably, the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physics, which honored his pioneering work in the field of low-temperature physics and condensed matter, particularly liquid helium. Unfortunately, Landau's wife and son had to accept the Nobel Prize for him; Landau had been seriously injured in a car crash several months earlier and never completely recovered. He was unable to work again, and spent the remainder of his years, until his death in 1968, battling health problems resulting from the accident. Landau's most notable written work is his Course of Theoretical Physics, an eight-volume set of texts covering the complete range of theoretical physics. Like several other of Landau's books, it was written with Evgeny Lifshitz, a favorite student, because Landau himself strongly disliked writing. Some other works include What is Relativity?, Theory of Elasticity, and Physics for Everyone.

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