Lectures in Statistical Physics: From the Advanced School for Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Austin, Texas, USA (Lecture Notes in Physics)

These lectures are taken from the Advanced School for Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics organized by the Center for Statistical Mechanics of the University of Texas at Austin,(Professor Ilya Prigogine director). All lectures, except for those by Professor Lebowltz, are from the first school held in Spring 1969. Those by Professor Lebowitz are from the following year. Entropy and dissipative structure....Pages 1-19 Phase transitions....Pages 20-75 Dynamical effects at the critical point in fluids and magnets....Pages 76-135 Some exact results in equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics....Pages 136-148 Introduction to non-equilibrium statistical mechanics....Pages 149-181 Lectures in Statistical From the Advanced School for Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics Austin, Texas, USA (Lecture Notes in Physics) By R. Balescu, J. L. Lebowitz, I. Prigogine, P. Résibois, Z. W. Salsburg.