Statistical Physics

This book explores statistical physics, with an emphasis on the distinct character of the statistical motion and difficult subjects, related, mainly, to condensed matter. It discusses the interaction problem in real gases, as well as dimensionality effects and melting. The book shows how to estimate easily the critical temperature of the Ising ferromagnets, the origin of the drag force, how to get an inverse-wind vortex in turbulence, the entropy of the earthquakes, and how the gas-liquid transition occurs. It also describes the hadronization of the quark-gluon plasma is, the phase diagram of the quantum chromodynamics, and the thermodynamics of black holes. Contents 6 1 Preface 10 2 Introduction 14 3 Statistical Physics 68 4 Dimensionality Effects 108 5 Phase Transitions 132 6 Statistical Motion 170 7 Condensed Matter 234 8 Appendix 326 Index 332 10