The Net Advance of Physics:
STATISTICAL MECHANICS

MECHANICS: STATISTICAL:
See also Thermodynamics and History of Statistical Mechanics

• General:MIT Open Courseware:
  • 5.60 Undergraduate Thermodynamics & Kinetics by Keith A. Nelson, Moungi Bawendi, et al. [2008 Spring]
  • 5.62 Undergraduate Physical Chemistry II by Troy Van Voorhis [2008 Spring] Statistical mechanics, reaction rates, etc.

• General -- Textbooks: Rau 98/05;
  • Dynamic Textbook of Physical Chemistry by W. R. Salzman [2001] University of Arizona.

• General: Ivanov's Physics Encyclopedia @ Net Advance of Physics; Gorban and Karlin 2003/06;
  • A First Exposure to Statistical Mechanics for Life Scientists by Hernan G. Garcia et al. [2007/08]
  • Lecture Notes in Statistical Mechanics and Mesoscopics by Doron Cohen [2011/07] Ben-Gurion University class notes, 119 pp.
  • Stochastic thermodynamics, fluctuation theorems, and molecular machines by Udo Seifert [2012/05]

• General -- Foundations:
  • A Field Guide to Recent Work on the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics by Roman Frigg [2008/04]
  • The large deviation approach to statistical mechanics by Hugo Touchette [200/04]

• General -- History: Flamm 98/03;

• General: NUMERICAL & COMPUTATIONAL:
  • Four lectures on computational statistical physics by Werner Krauth [Les Houches 2008]
  • Statistical mechanics of classical and quantum computational complexity by Christopher R. Laumann et al. [Les Houches 2009/05]

• Type: NON-EQUILIBRIUM;

• Type: LONG-RANGE:
  • Notes on the Statistical Mechanics of Systems with Long-Range Interactions by David Mukamel [Les Houches 2008/08]

• Type: NON-EXTENSIVE: Tsallis 2002/05; Tsallis et al. 2002/09; Tsallis 2003/05; Tsallis 2003/09;
• Type: NON-EXTENSIVE: Re: HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS: Tsallis and Borges 2003/01;
• Type: NON-EXTENSIVE: Re: NUCLEAR PHYSICS: Tsallis and Borges 2003/01;
• Type: NON-LINEAR: Gorban and Karlin 2003/06;
• Type: QUANTUM: Re: OPERATOR ALGEBRAS: Ruelle 2001/07;
• Aspects: FLUCTUATIONS; FOKKER-PLANCK EQUATION; KINETICS; RANDOM WALK PROBLEM;

• Re: TRAFFIC FLOW;

• Re: BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS:
  • Effective Interactions in Soft Materials by Alan R. Denton [2007/11]

• Re: COLLOIDS:
  • Effective Interactions in Soft Materials by Alan R. Denton [2007/11]

• Re: COMPLEX NETWORKS: Albert and Barabasi 2001/06;

• Re: EVOLUTION: Peliti 97/12;
  • Statistical Genetics and Evolution of Quantitative Traits by Richard A. Neher and Boris I. Shraiman [2011/08]
  • Statistical Physics of Biological Evolution by Joachim Krug [2012/04]

• Re: FIELD THEORY:
  • Field Theory, Critical Phenomena and Interfaces by Gernot Münster et al. [1996/10]
• Re: GRAVITATING SYSTEMS: Padmanabhan 2002/06;

• Re: INFORMATION THEORY:
  • Information Theory and Statistical Physics - Lecture Notes by Neri Merhav [2010/06] 176pp.

• Re: POLYMERS:
  • Effective Interactions in Soft Materials by Alan R. Denton [2007/11]

• Re: PROBABILITY THEORY: Rau 98/05;
• Re: QUANTUM CHAOS: Izrailev 99/11;
• Re: QUANTUM DOTS: Alhassid 2001/02;
• Re: RANDOM GEOMETRY: Georgii et al. 99/05;

• Re: RENORMALISATION:
  • Renormalization Group: Applications in Statistical Physics by Uwe C. Tauber [2011/12]

• Re: SOFT MATERIALS:
  • Effective Interactions in Soft Materials by Alan R. Denton [2007/11]
  • Stochastic thermodynamics, fluctuation theorems, and molecular machines by Udo Seifert [2012/05]

• Re: TURBULENCE: Verma 2005/10;

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