By Roberto Piazza

This e-book, offers a basic advent to the information and techniques of statistical mechanics with the significant objective of assembly the wishes of Master’s scholars in chemical, mechanical, and fabrics technological know-how engineering. broad introductory details is gifted on many common physics issues during which scholars in engineering are inadequately educated, starting from the Hamiltonian formula of classical mechanics to simple quantum mechanics, electromagnetic fields in subject, intermolecular forces, and delivery phenomena. due to the fact that engineers could be in a position to practice actual ideas, the publication additionally makes a speciality of the sensible functions of statistical physics to fabric technological know-how and to state-of-the-art applied sciences, with short yet informative sections on, for instance, interfacial houses, disperse structures, nucleation, magnetic fabrics, superfluidity, and ultralow temperature applied sciences. The ebook adopts a graded method of studying, the outlet 4 basic-level chapters being via complicated “starred” sections during which targeted issues are mentioned. Its rather casual kind, together with using musical metaphors to steer the reader throughout the textual content, will reduction self-learning. 

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