Transcription of Statistical Physics - DAMTP
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Preprint typeset in JHEP style - HYPER VERSIONLent Term, 2011 and 2012 Statistical PhysicsUniversity of Cambridge Part II Mathematical TriposDr David TongDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics ,Centre for Mathematical Sciences,Wilberforce Road,Cambridge, CB3 OBA, 1 Recommended Books and Resources Reif,Fundamentals of Statistical and Thermal PhysicsA comprehensive and detailed account of the subject. It s solid. It s good. It isn tquirky. Kardar, Statistical Physics of ParticlesA modern view on the subject which offers many insights. It s superbly written, if alittle brief in places. A companion volume, The Statistical Physics of Fields coversaspects of critical phenomena.
Statistical mechanics is the art of turning the microscopic laws of physics into a de-scription of Nature on a macroscopic scale. Suppose you’ve got theoretical physics cracked. Suppose you know all the funda-mental laws of Nature, the properties of the elementary particles and the forces at play between them.
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