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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. Both are available to download as lecture notes. Linksare given on the course webpage Landau and Lifshitz, Statistical PhysicsRussian style: terse, encyclopedic, magnificent. Much of this book comes across asremarkably modern given that it was first published in 1958.
3.6.7 Landau Diamagnetism 104 4. Classical Thermodynamics 108 4.1 Temperature and the Zeroth Law 109 4.2 The First Law 111 4.3 The Second Law 113 4.3.1 The Carnot Cycle 115 4.3.2 Thermodynamic Temperature Scale and the Ideal Gas 117 4.3.3 Entropy 120 4.3.4 Adiabatic Surfaces 123 4.3.5 A History of Thermodynamics 126
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