Statistical Thermodynamics 2ND Edition

by Erwin Schrödinger

In this concise volume, one of the founders of quantum mechanics and one of the greatest theoretical physicists of the century (Nobel laureate, 1933) attempts to develop a simple, unified standard method of dealing with all cases of statistical thermodynamics (classical, quantum, Bose-Einstein, Fermi-Dirac, etc.).

Genres: Physics, Science, Nonfiction, Textbooks, Mathematics

Hardcover

First published May 2, 1968

About the author

Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger, sometimes written as Erwin Schrodinger or Erwin Schroedinger, was a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian physicist who developed a number of fundamental results in the field of quantum theory, which formed the basis of wave mechanics: he formulated the wave equation (stationary and time-dependent Schrödinger equation) and revealed the identity of his development of the formalism and matrix mechanics. Schrödinger proposed an original interpretation of the physical meaning of the wave function.

He won the 1933 Nobel prize in physics with colleague Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory"

Reviews

[William Schram · Rating 4 out of 5]

Statistical Thermodynamics by Erwin Schrödinger is pretty much what it says it is. Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger discusses the basics of Statistical Thermodynamics, utilizing equations and formulas galore. Alongside that is a number of descriptions of those very same formulas.

All in all, this book is similar to a number of other books published by Dover. The only issue I had was that the text was sometimes blurry when they printed a fractional exponent, but other than that I really enjoyed this book. A great deal of it was read while on a bus ride, and the rest was finished at work during my break. There are no problems to solve, so if you just want the theory this is a good book for that.

[Abdul]

this book is fantastic

[Yates Buckley · Rating 5 out of 5]

A clear concise technical approach to the physics of statistical thermodynamics.

[Krishna Shrinivas · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sheer genius.