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<blockquote>''"Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics."''
:David L. Goodstein "States of Matter" Prentice-Hall (1975) ISBN 978-0138435578 (Chapter 1 page 1).</blockquote>
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==B==
==B==
*[[BBGKY hierarchy]]
*[[BBGKY hierarchy]]
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*[[Chemical potential]]
*[[Chemical potential]]
*[[Compressibility equation]]
*[[Compressibility equation]]
*[[Critical exponents]]
*[[Critical points]]
*[[Critical points]]
*[[Curie's law]]
*[[Curie's law]]


==D==
==D==
*[[Darwin-Fowler method]]
*[[de Broglie thermal wavelength]]
*[[de Broglie thermal wavelength]]
==E==
==E==
*[[Energy equation]]
*[[Energy equation]]
*[[Entropy]]
*[[Entropy]]
*[[Ensembles in thermostatistics]]
*[[Ergodic hypothesis]]
==F==
==F==
*[[Fermi-Pasta-Ulam experiment]]
*[[Fisher–Ruelle stability criteria]]
*[[Fisher-Widom line]]
*[[Four-body function]]
*[[Four-body function]]
*[[Frenkel line]]
==G==
==G==
*[[Gibbs distribution]]
*[[Gibbs distribution]]
*[[Gibbs ensemble]]
*[[Gibbs ensemble]]
*[[Gibbs measures]]
*[[Gibbs paradox]]
*[[Gibbs paradox]]
*[[Goldstone modes]]
*[[Goldstone modes]]
*[[Grand canonical ensemble]]
*[[Grand canonical ensemble]]
==I==
==I==
*[[Information theory]]
*[[Internal energy]]
*[[Internal energy]]
*[[Intermolecular pair potential]]
*[[Intermolecular pair potential]]
*[[Isoenthalpic–isobaric ensemble]]
*[[Isothermal-isobaric ensemble]]
*[[Isothermal-isobaric ensemble]]
==J==
==J==
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==K==
==K==
*[[Kirkwood superposition approximation]]
*[[Kirkwood superposition approximation]]
*[[Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem]]
==L==
==L==
*[[Law of corresponding states]]
*[[Law of corresponding states]]
*[[Liouville's theorem]]
*[[Liouville's theorem]]
*[[Loschmidt's paradox]] (Umkehreinwand)
*[[Lyapunov exponents]]
*[[Lyapunov exponents]]


==M==
==M==
*[[MaxEnt thermodynamics]]
*[[Maxwell velocity distribution]]
*[[Maxwell velocity distribution]]
*[[Maxwell's demon]]
*[[Mean field models]]
*[[Melting curve]]
*[[Microcanonical ensemble]]
*[[Microcanonical ensemble]]
*[[Microstate]]
*[[Microstate]]
*[[Mixing systems]]


==P==
==P==
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==R==
==R==
*[[Radial distribution function]]
*[[Radial distribution function]]
*[[Ross melting rule]]
==S==
==S==
*[[Semi-grand ensembles]]
*[[Semi-grand ensembles]]
*[[Stochastic transition]]
*[[Structure factor]]
*[[Structure factor]]
*[[Surface tension]]
*[[Surface tension]]
==T==
==T==
*[[Temperature]]
*[[Temperature]]
*[[Thermodynamic limit]]
*[[Thermodynamic limit]]
*[[Transfer matrices]]
==W==
*[[Widom line]]
*[[Wigner's distribution function]]
==Y==
*[[Yang-Yang anomaly]]
==Z==
==Z==
*[[Zermelo’s paradox]] (Wiederkehreinwand)
*[[Zermelo’s paradox]]
}}
 
==General reading==
==General interest==
'''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
* Arieh Ben-Naim " Statistical Thermodynamics With Applications to the Life Sciences", World Scientific Publishing (2014) ISBN 978-981-4579-15-5
'''Papers'''
*[http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.27.289  D. Ter Haar "Foundations of Statistical Mechanics", Reviews of Modern Physics '''27''' pp. 289 - 338 (1955)]
*[http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.27.289  D. Ter Haar "Foundations of Statistical Mechanics", Reviews of Modern Physics '''27''' pp. 289 - 338 (1955)]
*[http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0034-4885/42/12/002 O. Penrose "Foundations of statistical mechanics", Reports on Progress in Physics '''42''' pp. 1937-2006 (1979)]
*[http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0034-4885/42/12/002 O. Penrose "Foundations of statistical mechanics", Reports on Progress in Physics '''42''' pp. 1937-2006 (1979)]
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*[http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0378-4371(98)00517-2 Elliott H. Lieb  "Some problems in statistical mechanics that I would like to see solved", Physica A '''263''' pp. 491-499 (1999)]
*[http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0378-4371(98)00517-2 Elliott H. Lieb  "Some problems in statistical mechanics that I would like to see solved", Physica A '''263''' pp. 491-499 (1999)]
*[http://www.pro-physik.de/Phy/pdfstart.do?mid=3&articleid=25753&recordid=25793 Joel L. Lebowitz  "Emergent Phenomena", Physik Journal '''6''' #9 pp. 41-46 (2007)]
*[http://www.pro-physik.de/Phy/pdfstart.do?mid=3&articleid=25753&recordid=25793 Joel L. Lebowitz  "Emergent Phenomena", Physik Journal '''6''' #9 pp. 41-46 (2007)]
===Information theory===
*[http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.106.620 E. T. Jaynes "Information Theory and Statistical Mechanics", Physical Review '''106''' pp. 620 - 630 (1957)]
*[http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.108.171  E. T. Jaynes "Information Theory and Statistical Mechanics. II", Physical Review '''108''' pp. 171 - 190 (1957)]
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[[category: statistical mechanics]]
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