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Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
About this book
Ilya Prigogine won the 1977 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics. This groundbreaking 1962 monograph, written for researchers and graduate students in this field, was his first book-length contribution to this subject.
Suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in physics and chemistry, the treatment begins with examinations of the Liouville equation, anharmonic solids, and Brownian motion. Subsequent chapters explore weakly coupled gases, scattering theory and short-range forces, distribution functions and their diagrammatic representation, the time dependence of diagrams, the approach to equilibrium in ionized gases, and statistical hydrodynamics. Additional topics include general kinetic equations, general H-theorem, quantum mechanics, and irreversibility and invariants of motion. Appendices, a bibliography, list of symbols, and an index conclude the text.
Suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in physics and chemistry, the treatment begins with examinations of the Liouville equation, anharmonic solids, and Brownian motion. Subsequent chapters explore weakly coupled gases, scattering theory and short-range forces, distribution functions and their diagrammatic representation, the time dependence of diagrams, the approach to equilibrium in ionized gases, and statistical hydrodynamics. Additional topics include general kinetic equations, general H-theorem, quantum mechanics, and irreversibility and invariants of motion. Appendices, a bibliography, list of symbols, and an index conclude the text.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The Liouville Equation
- 2. Anharmonic Solids
- 3. Brownian Motion
- 4. Weakly Coupled Gases
- 5. Approach to Equilibrium in Weakly Coupled Gases
- 6. Scattering Theory and Short-Range Forces
- 7. Distribution Functions: The Diagram Representation
- 8. The Time Dependence of Diagrams
- 9. Approach to Equilibrium in Ionized Gases
- 10. Statistical Hydrodynamics
- 11. General Kinetic Equations
- 12. General H-Theorem
- 13. Quantum Mechanics
- 14. Irreversibility and Invariants of Motion
- Appendix I: Laguerre Functions and Bessel Functions
- Appendix II: Derivation of the Master Equation by Time-Independent Perturbation Theory
- Appendix III: General Theory of Anharmonic Oscillators
- Appendix IV: Scattering by Randomly Distributed Centers and Van Hove’s Diagonal Singularity Conditions
- Bibliography
- List of Symbols
- Index