Fundamentals of Statistical and Thermal Physics

Reif, F. (1965). Fundamentals of Statistical and Thermal Physics. McGraw-Hill.

Type

Book chapter

Intellectual base

Textbook

Year

1965

Link

https://archive.org/details/fundamentalsofst00reif

Cited from

mathematics, physics

Cited by

4 citations across 4 artifacts.

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Primes

• Central Limit Theorem
  • Physics — thermal noise, Brownian motion, and diffusion produce Gaussian profiles because each displacement is a sum of many tiny independent kicks; Maxwell–Boltzmann velocity components are Gaussian for the same reason.

    This sourceDerives Gaussian profiles for thermal noise, Brownian motion/diffusion, and Maxwell–Boltzmann velocity components as sums of many independent small contributions.

• Degrees of Freedom
  • integrated DOF reasoning across classical, quantum, and statistical domains

    This sourceStandard upper-level statistical-physics text; develops the equipartition theorem and DOF reasoning across classical, quantum, and statistical-mechanical domains, building macroscopic thermodynamics from microscopic DOFs plus statistical postulates.

• Ensemble
  • Modern work (Reif, Sethna)

    This sourcestandard pedagogical treatment of ensemble theory used here for the claim that ensembles must be chosen to represent physical situations of interest, including finite-size considerations; a textbook rather than original-result source.

Domain-specific

• Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution
  • The Maxwell–Boltzmann speed distribution is the radial distribution obtained when three independent centered Gaussian velocity components have the common thermal variance \(k_B T/m\).

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