Statistical Physics, Third Edition, Part 1: Volume 5 (Course of Theoretical Physics, Volume 5) reviews

Statistical Physics, Third Edition, Part 1: Volume 5 (Course of Theoretical Physics, Volume 5) by L D Landau (Author), E.M. Lifshitz (Author). A lucid presentation of statistical physics and thermodynamics which develops from the general ideas to give a large number of functions of the theory.

This e book is a traditional, particularly within the sense it is considerably old fashioned in its primary approaches compared with newer books. For example it examines the statistics and entropy from the ergodic as opposed to the ensemble approach. Data Idea and position of symmetry and symmetry breaking is just not treated in detail. However I can’t hold these omissions towards the ebook since these developments happened largely in the late 70s.

What Landau does right here, and which in explicably very few Statistical Mechanics books do nowadays, is the total Gibbs Formalism. Not only is the Gibbs Formalism extra suitable with Quantum Mechanics, it could possibly additionally suits in superbly with Ensemble Statistics and Inofrmation Theory. More over, it is directly clear Maxwell and Boltzmann statistics are solely special cases of the Gibbs formalism, and might be easily proven in a couple of lines.

What Landau does, is to give a chic and cohesive view the truly elementary features of Statistical Mechanics. Chapters 1-6 of this guide alone shows a deeper level of understanding than whole books which were written. If you’re fascinated about Statistical Mechanics at all, this should be a centerpiece of your library.

That is the Volume 5 of the well-known Course of Theoretical Physics by L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz. All severe college students of theoretical physics must possess the ten volumes of this glorious Course, which cover in detail and rigour practically all of the branches of theoretical physics. The Volume 5 treats the topic of classical and quantum statistics. It incorporates an unusual strategy of those subjects, primarily based on the final Gibbs method, avoiding the introduction of ergodic hypotheses and, within the case of the best gasoline, of “a priori” probabilities, which are troublesome to justify and serves solely to obscure the exposition. The e-book is full and contains chapters not often found in other comparable books, such as the chapter on second-order section transitions. The readability of exposition and rigour is infamous on this book. A Magnific e-book!

Statistical Physics, Third Edition, Part 1: Volume 5 (Course of Theoretical Physics, Volume 5)

L D Landau (Author), E.M. Lifshitz (Author)

544 pages

Butterworth-Heinemann; 3 edition (January 15, 1980)

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