Introductory Statistical Mechanics

by Roger Bowley, Mariana Sanchez

In a simple and progressive way, this book explains the ideas and techniques of statistical mechanics. Most other books of the same subject tend to be dry and unappealing and undergraduates find themselves confused with the difficult maths presented. This is indeed a tricky subject to explain and techniques doing so are often complicated. However this book starts with the laws of thermodynamics and simple ideas of quantum mechanics and the reader is led through progressively more complex problems with all the mathematical detail explained. This will be a much welcomed book by all physics and chemistry undergraduates studying the subject

Genres: Physics, Science, Nonfiction, Textbooks, Mathematics, Reference

302 pages, Hardcover

First published September 26, 1996

Reviews

[Ali]

i want to read this book

[Kevin Montes · Rating 3 out of 5]

I used this book for my undergraduate statistical mechanics class. Found it to be a bit too wordy and long-winded, and I also did not like the fact that important equations and concepts were not written in a way to stand out at all from the clutter. However, the text did include a lot of interesting discussion on the concepts and some good problems and solutions at the end of each chapter. Not sure how it compares to other statistical mechanics books, but compared to other similar texts I have used on mechanics and thermal physics I would say it is sub par