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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.
2. Classical Gases 32 2.1 The Classical Partition Function 32 2.1.1 From Quantum to Classical 33 2.2 Ideal Gas 34 2.2.1 Equipartition of Energy 37 2.2.2 The Sociological Meaning of Boltzmann’s Constant 37 2.2.3 Entropy and Gibbs’s Paradox 39 2.2.4 The Ideal Gas in the Grand Canonical Ensemble 40 2.3 Maxwell Distribution 42
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