Lectures on Statistical Mechanics
Statistical Mechanics
2025-07-02 v5 Classical Physics
Plasma Physics
Abstract
Presented here is a transcription of the lecture notes from Professor Allan N. Kaufman's graduate statistical mechanics course at Berkeley from the 1972-1973 academic year. Part 1 addresses equilibrium statistical mechanics with topics: fundamentals, classical fluids and other systems, chemical equilibrium, and long-range interactions. Part 2 addresses non-equilibrium statistical mechanics with topics: fundamentals, Brownian motion, Liouville and Klimontovich equations, Landau equation, Markov processes and Fokker-Planck equation, linear response and transport theory, and an introduction to non-equilibrium quantum statistical mechanics.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2409.04899,
title = {Lectures on Statistical Mechanics},
author = {Allan N. Kaufman and Bruce I. Cohen and Alain J. Brizard},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.04899},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
165 pages, lecture notes, ten figures