Statistical Physics

Introduction
Fundamentals of statistical mechanics
	Microcanonical ensemble
	Pressure, volume and the first law of thermodynamics
	The canonical ensemble
	Helmholtz free energy
	The chemical potential and the grand canonical ensemble
	Extensive and intensive properties
Classical gases
	The classical partition function
	Monoatomic ideal gas
	Maxwell distribution
	Diatomic gases
	Interacting gases
Quantum gases
	Density of states
	Black-body radiation
	Phonons and the Debye model
	Quantum ideal gas
	Bosons
	Bose–Einstein condensation
	Fermions
	Pauli paramagnetism
Classical thermodynamics
	Zeroth and first law
	The second law
	Carnot cycles
	Entropy
	Thermodynamic potentials
	Third law of thermodynamics
Phase transitions
	Liquid-gas transition
	Critical point and critical exponents
	The Ising model
	Landau theory
Index