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*[[Fermi-Pasta-Ulam experiment]] | *[[Fermi-Pasta-Ulam experiment]] | ||
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*[[Fisher-Widom line]] | *[[Fisher-Widom line]] | ||
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*[[Thermodynamic limit]] | *[[Thermodynamic limit]] | ||
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*[[Yang-Yang anomaly]] | |||
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*[[Zermelo’s paradox]] (Wiederkehreinwand) | *[[Zermelo’s paradox]] (Wiederkehreinwand) | ||
Revision as of 12:25, 29 April 2010
B
- BBGKY hierarchy
- Boltzmann average
- Boltzmann constant
- Boltzmann distribution
- Boltzmann factor
- Born-Green equation
- Brownian motion
C
- Canonical ensemble
- Chemical potential
- Compressibility equation
- Critical exponents
- Critical points
- Curie's law
D
E
F
G
- Gibbs distribution
- Gibbs ensemble
- Gibbs measures
- Gibbs paradox
- Goldstone modes
- Grand canonical ensemble
I
- Information theory
- Internal energy
- Intermolecular pair potential
- Isoenthalpic–isobaric ensemble
- Isothermal-isobaric ensemble
J
K
L
- Law of corresponding states
- Liouville's theorem
- Loschmidt's paradox (Umkehreinwand)
- Lyapunov exponents
M
- Maxwell velocity distribution
- Maxwell's demon
- Mean field models
- Microcanonical ensemble
- Microstate
- Mixing systems
P
- Pair distribution function
- Parrondo's paradox
- Partition function
- Phase space
- Phase transitions
- Poincaré theorem
- Pressure
- Pressure equation (aka. virial equation)
Q
R
S
T
Y
Z
- Zermelo’s paradox (Wiederkehreinwand)
General reading
Books
- Donald A. McQuarrie "Statistical Mechanics", University Science Books (1984) (Re-published 2000) ISBN 978-1-891389-15-3
- L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz "Statistical Physics", Course of Theoretical Physics volume 5 Part 1 3rd Edition (1984) ISBN 0750633727
- Terrell L. Hill "Statistical Mechanics: Principles and Selected Applications" (1956) ISBN 0486653900
- Terrell L. Hill "An Introduction to Statistical Thermodynamics" (1986) ISBN 0486652424
Papers
- D. Ter Haar "Foundations of Statistical Mechanics", Reviews of Modern Physics 27 pp. 289 - 338 (1955)
- O. Penrose "Foundations of statistical mechanics", Reports on Progress in Physics 42 pp. 1937-2006 (1979)
- P. W. Anderson "More Is Different", Science 177 pp. 393-396 (1972)
- J. S. Rowlinson "The evolution of some statistical mechanical ideas", Molecular Physics 104 pp. 3399 - 3410 (2006)
- Elliott H. Lieb "Some problems in statistical mechanics that I would like to see solved", Physica A 263 pp. 491-499 (1999)
- Joel L. Lebowitz "Emergent Phenomena", Physik Journal 6 #9 pp. 41-46 (2007)