Statistical Physics Book

	Preface
	Preface to the first edition
1	Basic ideas	1
2	Distinguishable particles	14
3	Two examples	26
4	Gases: the density of states	46
5	Gases: the distributions	55
6	Maxwell-Boltzmann gases	68
7	Diatomic gases	79
8	Fermi-Dirac gases	89
9	Bose-Einstein gases	103
10	Entropy in other situations	118
11	Phase transitions	126
12	Two new ideas	138
13	Chemical thermodynamics	148
14	Dealing with interactions	167
15	Statistics under extreme conditions	187
	Appendix A Some elementary counting problems	203
	Appendix B Some problems with large numbers	205
	Appendix C Some useful integrals	208
	Appendix D Some useful constants	211
	Appendix E Exercises	212
	Appendix F Answers to exercises	220
	Index	222