Beschreibung:
This book shows how you can start from basic laws for the interactions and motions of microscopic particles and calculate how macroscopic systems of these particles behave, thereby explaining properties of matter at the scale that we perceive.
1. Introduction 2. Statistical mechanics from a quantum perspective 3. Classical statistical mechanics 4. Illustrative examples from some classical theories of fluids 5. Interaction potentials and distributions functions 6. Interactions and correlations in simple bulk electrolytes 7. Inhomogeneous and confined simple fluids 8. Surface forces