Principles of Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics

Part I Thermostatics: basic principles of thermostatics thermostatics of phase stability, phase equilibria and phase transitions. Part II Basic principles of statistical mechanics: rules of calculation fluctuations, correlation and response functions statistical physics of ideal classical gases statistical physics of ideal quantum gases. Part III Statistical mechanics of interacting systems: models of interacting systems and thermodynamic limit exact solution of some models of interacting systems computer simulation methods in statistical mechanics mean-field approximation I - Van der Waals-Weiss formulation exact solution of models with infinite-range interaction or in infinite dimension mean-field approximation II - Landau formulation beyond mean-field approximation - scaling and renormalization group rules of calculation revisited - foundations of statistical mechanics. (Part contents).