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Title: Statistical Mechanics (Pauli Lectures on Physics) by Wolfgang Pauli, Charles P. Enz, S. Margulies, H. R. Lewis, Victor F. Weisskopf ISBN: 0-486-41460-4 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: A good introduction to statistical mechanics
Comment: Wolfgang Pauli really is an expert in explaining the not-so-simple subject of physics to not-so-bright students of the subject. This book is another proof of that. His unique style of using not too clumsy notation and of getting directly to the point (a feat that is hard to achieve in statistical mechanics that must be studied with lots of mathematical prerequisites) could magnetize even the ordinary physics student to read further the text. Studying statistical mechanics, like other fields in physics and mathematics, bears fruit only when reading is accompanied with papers and pen for tracing the computations in the text. But with Pauli's statmech book, calculations with papers and pen can be minimal. In fact, mental calculations can simultaneously go with reading. The reader is properly introduced to the subject because of the simplistic arguments found in the introductory parts, especially the specific topics of billiard ball problems and central forces. The whole chapter under Brownian Motion makes the book independent and the subject very well understood. Historically, ideas in statistical physics was formed due to the inability of classical mechanics to explain the irregularity of motion of dust particles suspended in air or water. The only, but only slightly, "dirty" character of the book is the too early introduction of the subject of quantum statistics due to inadequate presentation of various experimental indications leading to the subject. The book would be a perfect one had Pauli discussed first experiments around the topic. But as an introductory book that inadequacy could be ignored. Generally, the book is good.
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Title: Theory of Relativity by Wolfgang Pauli ISBN: 048664152X Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 September, 1981 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Statistical Thermodynamics by Erwin Schrodinger ISBN: 0486661016 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 October, 1989 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Lectures on Gas Theory by Ludwig Boltzmann ISBN: 0486684555 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Treatise on Thermodynamics by Max Planck ISBN: 048666371X Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 1990 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Lectures on Quantum Mechanics by P. A. M. Dirac ISBN: 0486417131 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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