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    W.格雷纳、L.内瑟、H.斯托克著的《热力学和统计力学(英文版)》共有四部分。（一）热力学：平衡和态量；热力学定律；相变和化学反应；热力势。（二）统计力学：微态和熵的数；系统理论和微正则系统；正则系统；玻耳兹曼统计应用；宏观正则系统。（三）分量子统计包括密度算符；多粒子波动函数的对称性；理想量子系统的巨正则描述；理想玻色气体；理想费密气体；玻色和费密气体的相对应用。（四）实气体和相变：实气体；相变分类。
    本书不仅对理论物理专业的大学生、教师、研究生及研究人员是难得的好书，对广大爱好理论物理学的各方面人士也有很好的参考价值。

Foreword
Preface
I Thermodynamics
  1. Equilibrium and State Quantities
    Introduction
    Systems, phases and state quantities
    Equilibrium and temperature  the zeroth law of thermodynamics
    Kinetic theory of the ideal gas
    Pressure, work and chemical potential
    Heat and heat capacity
    The equation of state for a real gas
    Specific heat
    Changes of state--reversible and irreversible processes
    Exact and inexact differentials, line integrals
  2. The Laws of Thermodynamics
    The first law
    Carnot's process and entropy
    Entropy and the second law
    Insertion: Microscopic interpretation of entropy and of the second law
    Global and local equilibrium
    Thermodynamic engines
    Euler's equation and the Gibbs-Duhem relation
  3. Phase Transitions and Chemical Reactions
    Gibbs' Phase Rule
    Phase equilibrium and the Maxwell construction
    The law of mass action
    Application of the laws of thermodynamics
  4. Thermodynamic Potentials
    The principle of maximum entropy
    Entropy and energy as thermodynamic potentials
    The Legendre transformation
    The free energy
    The cnthalpy
    The free enthalpy
    The grand potential
    The transformation of all variables
    The Maxwell relations
    Jacobi transformations
    Thermodynamic stability
II Statistical Mechanics
  5. Number of Microstates Ω and Entropy S
    Foundations
    Phase space
    Statistical definition of entropy
    Gibbs' paradox
    Pseudo quantum mechanical counting of Ω
  6. Ensemble Theory and Microcanonical Ensemble
    Phase-space density, ergodic hypothesis
    Liouville's theorem
    The microcanonical ensemble
    Entropy as an ensemble average
    The uncertainty function
  7. The Canonical Ensemble
    General foundation of the Gibbs correction factor
    Systems of noninteracting particles
    Calculation of observables as ensemble averages
    Connection between microcanonical and canonical ensembles
    Fluctuations
    Vh-ial theorem and equipartition theorem
    For better understanding: canonical ensemble as the mean value of all
    possible distributions
  8. Applications of Boltzmann Statistics
    Quantum Systems in Boltzmann Statistics
    Paramagnetism
    Negative temperatures in two-level systems
    Gases with internal degrees of freedom
    Relativistic ideal gas
  9. The Macrocanonical Ensemble
    Fluctuations in the macrocanonical ensemble
III Quantum Statistics
  10. Density Operators
    Fundamentals
    Pure and mixed states
    Properties of the density matrix
    The density operators of quantum statistics
  11. The Symmetry Character of Many-Particle Wavefunctions
  12. Grand Canonical Description of Ideal Quantum Systems
  13. The Ideal Bose Gas
    Ultrarelativistic Bose gas
  14. Ideal Fermi Gas
    The degenerate Fermi gas
    Supplement: Natural units
  15. Applications of Relativistic Bose and Fermi Gases
    Quark-gluon plasma in the Big Bang and in heavy-ion collisions
IV Real Gases and Phase Transitions
  16. Real Gases
    For absorption: Mayer's cluster expansion
    Virial expansion
  17. Classification of Phase Transitions
    Theorem of corresponding states
    Critical indices
    Examples for phase transitions
  18. The Models of Ising and Helsenberg
Index