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Statistical Mechanics is the extended version of McQuarrie’s earlier text – Statistical Thermodynamics [USB 1984]. Statistical Mechanics [previously published by Longman Education] is a renowned accessible introduction to the subject. It contains a large number of problems at the end of each chapter to help students understand the material and to introduce them to selected extensions.
1. Introduction and Review
2. The Canonical Ensemble
3. Other Ensembles and Fluctuations
4. Boltzmann Statistics, Fermi-Dirac Statistics, and Bose-Einstein Statistics
5. Ideal Monatomic Gas
6. Ideal Diatomic Gas
7. Classical Statistical Mechanics
8. Ideal Polyatomic Gas
9. Chemical Equilibrium
10. Quantum Statistics
11. Crystals
12. Imperfect Gases
13. Distribution Functions in Classical Monatomic Liquids
14. Perturbation Theories of Liquids
15. Solutions of Strong Electrolytes
16. Kinetic Theory of Gases and Molecular Collisions
17. Continuum Mechanics
18. Kinetic Theory of Gases and the Boltzmann Equation
19. Transport Processes in Dilute Gases
20. Theory of Brownian Motion
21. The Time-Correlation Function Formalism, I
22. The Time-Correlation Function Formalism, II
Appendix A. Values of Some Physical Constants and Energy Conversion Factors
Appendix B. Fourier Integrals and the Dirac Delta Function
Appendix C. Debye Heat Capacity Function
Appendix D. Hard-Sphere Radial Distribution Function
Appendix E. Tables for the m-6-8 Potential
Appendix F. Derivation of the Golden Rule of Perturbation Theory
Appendix G. The Dirac BRA and KET Notation
Appendix H. The Heisenberg Time-Dependent Representation
Appendix I. The Poynting Flux Vector
Appendix J. The Radiation Emitted by an Oscillating Dipole
Appendix K. Dielectric Constant and Absorption
Index
