title: Statistical Mechanics (North-Holland Personal Library)
author: R. Kubo
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  W. David McComb
  Study notes for Statistical Physics  
  A concise, unified overview of the subject
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  Study notes for Statistical Physics: A concise, unified overview of the subject
  1st edition
  © 2015 W. David McComb & bookboon.com
  ISBN 978-87-403-0841-9
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  Study notes for Statistical Physics:  
  A concise, unified overview of the subject
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  Contents
  Contents
   
  Acknowledgement 
  8
   
  Preface 
  9
  I 
  Statistical ensembles 
  11
  1 
  Introduction 
  12
  1.1 
  The isolated assembly 
  12
  1.2 
  Method of the most probable distribution 
  13
  1.3 
  Ensemble of assemblies: relationship between Gibbs and Boltzmann entropies 
  15
  2 
  Stationary ensembles 
  18
  2.1 
  Types of ensemble 
  18
  2.2 
  Variational method for the most probable distribution 
  19
  2.3 
  Canonical ensemble 
  21
  2.4 
  Compression of a perfect gas 
  22
  2.5 
  The Grand Canonical Ensemble (GCE) 
  25
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