TY - BOOK AU - Guha,Evelyn TI - Statistical mechanics: an introduction SN - 9781842653357 (hbk.) AV - QC174.8 G84 2008 U1 - 530.13 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Oxford PB - Alpha Science International KW - Mecánica estadística KW - lemb KW - Statistical mechanics N1 - Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice; 1. Statistical description of systems -- 2. Evaluation of the number of microstates in the microcanonical formalism -- 3. Classical statistical mechanics -- 4. The microcanonical ensemble : distribution functions for ideal gases : the density matrix -- 5. The Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution -- 6. The Bose-Einstein distribution. Applications to some simple systems -- 7. The Fermi-Dirac distribution : some ideal Fermi systems -- 8. The Canonical ensemble : some applications -- 9. The grand canonical ensemble -- 10. Applications N2 - This text has been written keeping in mind the student who encounters statistical mechanics for the first time. Starting with a statistical view of the physical world, the basic concepts of macrostates and microstates of a system are discussed with much care using many examples to illustrate abstract ideas ER -