Perspectives on Statistical Thermodynamics

Название: Perspectives on Statistical Thermodynamics
Автор: Yoshitsugu Oono
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 2018
Формат: PDF
Размер: 21 Мб
Язык: английский / English

This original text develops a deep, conceptual understanding of thermal physics, highlighting the important links between thermodynamics and statistical physics, and examining how thermal physics fits within physics as a whole, from an empirical perspective. The first part of the book is devoted to elementary, mesoscopic topics such as Brownian motion, which leads to intuitive uses of large deviation theory, one of the pillars of modern probability theory.