1st Edition
Statistical Mechanics From Thermodynamics to the Renormalization Group
Part One. Structure of Statistics
Chapter 1. Thermodynamics
Chapter 2. From Mechanics to Statistical Mechanics
Chapter 3. Probability Theory
Chapter 4. Ensemble Theory
Part Two. Applications of Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
Chapter 5. Ideal Systems
Chapter 6. Interacting Systems
Chapter 7. Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena
Chapter 8. Scaling Theories and the Renormalization Group
Biography
James H. Luscombe received the PhD in Physics from the University of Chicago in 1983. After post-doctoral positions at the University of Toronto and Iowa State University, he joined the Research Laboratory of Texas Instruments, where he worked on the development of nanoelectronic devices. In 1994, he joined the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA, where he is Professor of Physics. He was Chair of the Department of Physics from 2003 – 2009. He teaches a wide variety of topics, including generalrelativity, statistical mechanics, mathematical methods, and quantum computation. He has published more than 60 research articles, and has given more than 100 conference presentations; he holds 2 patents.
