Inhalt:

• thermodynamics: thermodynamic potentials, laws of thermodynamics, thermodynamic cycles
• equilibrium ensembles, partition functions
• phase transitions, critical phenomena
• interacting systems: Ising model, mean-field approximation
• ideal quantum gases, Bose-Einstein codensation

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)