Course of Theoretical Physics

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 h § 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 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 Equation of State of an Ideal Gas § 43. Ideal Gases With Constant Specific Heat § 44. The Law of Equipartition § 45. Monatomic Ideal Gases § 46. Monatomic Gases. The Effect of the Electronic Angular Momentum § 47. Diatomic Gases With Molecules of Unlike Atoms. Rotation of Molecules § 48. Diatomic Gases With Molecules of Like Atoms. Rotation of Molecules § 49. Diatomic Gases. Vibrations of Atoms § 50. Diatomic Gases. The Effect of the Electronic Angular Momentum § 51. Polyatomic Gases § 52. Magnetism of Gases V. The Fermi and Bose Distributions § 53. The Fermi Distribution § 54. The Bose Distribution § 55. Fermi and Bose Gases Not in Equilibrium § 56. Fermi and Bose Gases of Elementary Particles § 57. A Degenerate Electron Gas § 58. The Specific Heat of a Degenerate Electron Gas § 59. Magnetism of an Electron Gas. Weak Fields § 60. Magnetism of an Electron Gas. Strong Fields § 61. A Relativistic Degenerate Electron Gas § 62. A Degenerate Bose Gas § 63. Black-Body Radiation VI. Solids § 64. Solids at Low Temperatures § 65. Solids at High Temperatures § 66. Debye's Interpolation Formula § 67. Thermal Expansion of Solids § 68. Highly Anisotropic Crystals § 69. Crystal Lattice Vibrations § 70. Number Density of Vibrations § 71. Phonons § 72. Phonon Creation and Annihilation Operators § 73. Negative Temperatures VII. Non-Ideal Gases § 74. Deviations of Gases from the Ideal State § 75. Expansion in Powers of the Density § 76. Van Der Waals' Formula § 77. Relationship of the Virial Coefficient and the Scattering Amplitude § 78. Thermodynamic Quantities for a Classical Plasma § 79. The Method of Correlation Functions § 80. Thermodynamic Quantities for a Degenerate Plasma VIII.