Physics 540 Fall 2005
Required Textbooks


Charles Kittel, Elementary Statistical Physics, Dover Publications $14.95
ISBN:  0486435148
E. Atlee Jackson, Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics, Dover Publications $9.95
ISBN:  0486411850

Historical Texts


Ludwig Boltzmann, Lectures on Gas Theory, Dover Publications
ISBN:  0486684555
One of the great masterpieces of theoretical physics and standard work on kinetic theory.
J. Willard Gibbs, Elementary Principles of Statistical Mechanics, Ox Bow Press
ISBN: 091802420X

Other recommended books
(an incomplete list of books I like)


 

last revised 7/5/2005 Philip B. Allen
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