Inhalt:

  • equilibrium ensembles
  • thermodynamics: thermodynamic potentials, laws of thermodynamics, thermodynamic cycles
  • ideal quantum gases
  • phase transitions
  • interacting systems
  • introduction to non-equilibrium statistical mechanics

Literatur

  • R.K. Pathria, Statistical Mechanics (Butterworth Heinemann 1996)
  • F. Schwabl, Statistical Mechanics (2n ed., Springer 2006)
  • F. Reif, Fundamentals of statistical and thermal physics (McGraw-Hill 1965)
  • W. Nolting, Grundkurs theoretische Physik 6: Statistische Physik (Springer 2005)