Statistical Physics / Part 1.
by L.D. Landau and E.M. Lifshitz; translated from the Russian by J.B. Sykes and M.J. Kearsley
- 3rd ed. / revised and enlarged by E.M. Lifshitz and L.P. Pitaevskii.
- Oxford : Butterworth-Heinemann 1980.
- xvi, 544 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Fundamental principles of theoretical physics; The Gibbs distribution; Ideal gases; Solids; Non-ideal gases; Solutions; Chemical reactions; Fluctuations; Surfaces.
A lucid presentation of statistical physics and thermodynamics which develops from the general principles to give a large number of applications of the theory.