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Table of ContentsForeword; Preface; I. Thermodynamics 1. Equilibrium and State Quantities; 2. The Laws of Thermodynamics; 3. Phase Transitions and Chemical Reactions; 4. Thermodynamic Potentials II. Statistical Mechanics 5. Number of Microstates and Entropy; 6. Ensemble Theory and the Microcanonical Ensemble; 7. The Canonical Ensemble; 8. Application of Boltzmann Statistics; 9. The Macrocanonical Ensemble III. Quantum Statistics 10. Density Operators; 11. The Symmetry Character of Many-Particle Wavefunctions; 12. Grand Canonical Description of Ideal Quantum Systems; 13. The Ideal Bose Gas; 14. Ideal Fermi Gas; 15. Applications of Relativistic Bose and Fermi Gases IV. Real Gases and Phase Transitions 16. Real Gases; 17. Classification of Phase Transitions; 18. The Models of Ising and Heisenberg; Index
