●Preface to the third Russian edition
From the prefaces to previous Russian editions
Notation
I.THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF STATISTICAL PHYSICS
1.Statistical distributions
2.Statistical independence
3.Liouville's theorem
4.The significance of energy
5.The statistical matrix
6.Statistical distributions in quantum statistics
7.Entropy
8.The law of increase of entropy
II.THERMODYNAMIC QUANTITIES
9.Temperature
10.Macroscopic motion
11.Adiabatic processes
12.Pressure
13.Work and quantity of heat
14.The heat function
15.The free energy and the thermodynamic potential
16.Relations between the derivatives of thermodynamic quantities
17.The thermodynamic scale of temperature
18.The Joule-Thomson process
19.Maximum work
20.Maximum work done by a body in an external medium
21.Thermodynamic inequalities
22.Le Chatelier's principle
23.Nernst's theorem
24.The dependence of the thermodynamic quantities on the number of particles
25.Equilibrium of a body in an external field
26.Rotating bodies
27.Thermodynamic relations in the relativistic region
III.THE GIBBS DISTRIBUTION
28.The Gibbs distribution
29.The Maxwellian distribution
30.The probability distribution for an oscillator
31.The free energy in the Gibbs distribution
32.Thermodynamic perturbation theory
33.Expansion in powers of A
34.The Gibbs distribution for rotating bodies
35.The Gibbs distribution for a variable number of particles
36.The derivation of the thermodynamic relations from the Gibbs distribution 109
IV.IDEAL GASES
37.The Boltzmann distribution
38.The Boltzmann distribution in classical statistics
39.Molecular collisions
40.Ideal gases not in equilibrium
41.The free energy of an ideal Boltzmann gas
42.The cquation of state of an ideal gas
43.Ideal gases with constant specific heat
44.The law of equipartition
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