Inhalt:

• equilibrium ensembles
• thermodynamics: thermodynamic potentials, laws of thermodynamics, thermodynamic cycles
• ideal quantum gases
• phase transitions
• interacting systems
• introduction to non-equilibrium statistical mechanics

• R.K. Pathria, Statistical Mechanics (Butterworth Heinemann 1996)
• F. Schwabl, Statistical Mechanics (2n ed., Springer 2006)
• F. Reif, Fundamentals of statistical and thermal physics (McGraw-Hill 1965)
• W. Nolting, Grundkurs theoretische Physik 6: Statistische Physik (Springer 2005)