Statistical and Thermal Physics: With Computer Applications

by Harvey Gould and Jan Tobochnik

Book Overview

A highly innovative text with integrated computer solutions

This textbook carefully develops the main ideas and techniques of statistical and thermal physics and is intended for upper-level undergraduate courses. The authors each have more than thirty years' experience in teaching, curriculum development, and research in statistical and computational physics.

Statistical and Thermal Physics begins with a qualitative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691137447
• ISBN13: 9780691137445
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 552 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.2" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Not a great entry level book, assumes some knowledge of quantum/modern

This book is fairly hard to read as an undergrad in physics. It assumes knowledge of basic quantum and modern physics, yet the course is taught prior to either of those classes. There are no solutions to problems at all, and this makes it hard to practice, as the examples are fairly trivial. Some of the equations worked out also skip "trivial" steps, yet to an undergrad, the steps were not at all trivial.