ISBN: 0691215553 9780691215556

Category: Science / Physics / General

Page count: 408

<p><b>A groundbreaking textbook on twenty-first-century statistical physics and its applications</b><br><br>Kip Thorne and Roger Blandford’s monumental <i>Modern Classical Physics</i> is now available in five stand-alone volumes that make ideal textbooks for individual graduate or advanced undergraduate courses on statistical physics; optics; elasticity and fluid dynamics; plasma physics; and relativity and cosmology. Each volume teaches the fundamental concepts, emphasizes modern, real-world applications, and gives students a physical and intuitive understanding of the subject.<br><br><i>Statistical Physics</i> is an essential introduction that is different from others on the subject because of its unique approach, which is coordinate-independent and geometric; embraces and elucidates the close quantum-classical connection and the relativistic and Newtonian domains; and demonstrates the power of statistical techniques—particularly statistical mechanics—by presenting applications not only to the usual kinds of things, such as gases, liquids, solids, and magnetic materials, but also to a much wider range of phenomena, including black holes, the universe, information and communication, and signal processing amid noise.<br></p><ul><li>Includes many exercise problems</li><li>Features color figures, suggestions for further reading, extensive cross-references, and a detailed index</li><li>Optional “Track 2” sections make this an ideal book for a one-quarter, half-semester, or full-semester course</li><li>An online illustration package is available to professors</li></ul><p>The five volumes, which are available individually as paperbacks and ebooks, are <i>Statistical Physics</i>; <i>Optics</i>; <i>Elasticity and Fluid Dynamics</i>;<i> Plasma Physics</i>; and<i> Relativity and Cosmology.</i></p>