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Statistical physics (The Manchester physics series)

by Franz Mandl (Author)
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
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The laws of statistical mechanics and thermodynamics form one of the most fascinating branches of physics, and this text imparts some of this fascination to the student. The rapid growth in scientific knowledge means that an undergraduate physics course can no longer teach the whole of physics. With this in mind Professor Mandl has written a book which allows great flexibility in its use; it enables readers to proceed by the quickest route to a particular topic, and it enables teachers to select courses differing in length, difficulty and choice of applications. The aim of the text is to explain critically the basic laws of statistical physics and to apply them to a wide range of interesting problems. A reader who has mastered this book should have no difficulties with one of the more advanced treatises or with tackling quite realistic problems. Two substantial improvements have been incorporated into this second edition - firstly much greater prominence has been given to the Gibbs distribution, and secondly the treatment of magnetic work has been completely revised. Other changes include clarification of some of the arguments, a general updating of the textual material and a revision of the bibliography.
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  1. ISBN-10
    0471566586
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0471566588
  3. Publisher
    John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 1971
  5. Part of series
    Manchester Physics
  6. Language
    English
  7. Print length
    394 pages
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated (January 1, 1971)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 394 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0471566586
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0471566588
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.23 pounds
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 37 ratings

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Although I enjoy the book greatly and highly recommend it, I am disappointed with the publisher. The inside cover of mandls books always have a flow diagram with a scheme on how to use it but they printed the quantum physics diagram for my statistical physics one and I cannot find the right one online anywhere.
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math_guy51
5.0 out of 5 stars Best intro to theoretical statistical mechanics book!
Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2023
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The authors make a remarkable and successful attempt to explain and deduce the key principles of statistical mechanics
It is especially valuable to a self-learner
The book does not cover modern stat mechanics methods used to model phase transitions
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Raul
5.0 out of 5 stars Good book
Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2019
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Good book that explains statistical mechanics and thermodinamics
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Jimmy A
5.0 out of 5 stars My Favorite Physics Book
Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2002
This book is really one of the most interesting books I've ever read, and is my favorite book in physics. The writing style is clear, the figures and graphs well-done, and the book contains valuable exercises and partial solutions. As an undergraduate text it requires a basic background in diff. eq., classical mechanics, e&m etc, but never gets too intimidating. In a graduate statmech class I found the background I received from Mandl carried me almost all the way through. What a great book!
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william todd
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2018
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excellent treatment of subject
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buckeye_state
2.0 out of 5 stars Kind of a waste of money...will be reselling
Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2014
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I bought this over the winter break hoping to get a leap ahead for my stat mech class. This book is almost worthless, it glazes over things in a 10,000 foot view that would bore anyone who wants to know more about stat mech and is without any meat for those looking to get a handle on the subject. I found another book (thanks to Amazon reviewers) and I highly recommend both "A Survival Guide to Statistical Mechanics" by Glazer and Wark (get your thermo under control) followed by "Statistical Physics and Particles" (Kardar) coupled with Feynman's lectures on Stat Mech. The solutions for Kardar are on the net which will aid a person's understanding greatly (the problems are almost impossible without it).
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Aakash Lakshmanan
3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed with publisher
Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2019
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Although I enjoy the book greatly and highly recommend it, I am disappointed with the publisher. The inside cover of mandls books always have a flow diagram with a scheme on how to use it but they printed the quantum physics diagram for my statistical physics one and I cannot find the right one online anywhere.
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Aakash Lakshmanan
3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed with publisher
Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2019
Although I enjoy the book greatly and highly recommend it, I am disappointed with the publisher. The inside cover of mandls books always have a flow diagram with a scheme on how to use it but they printed the quantum physics diagram for my statistical physics one and I cannot find the right one online anywhere.
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DaaDaa
2.0 out of 5 stars definitely not recommended.
Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2015
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as a thermodynamics textbook, it is quite underwhelming. it has no solved examples, the excercises are inadequate and just in general its a physics textbook lacking in many areas including the math that is necessary to communicate and encourage problem solving skills. it is wordy and takes too lomg to read. definitely not recommended.
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L. Hanson
4.0 out of 5 stars Good title for self-study
Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2007
I originally wanted to obtain a self-study guide for thermodynamics and statistical physics. I noticed that F. Mandl's book was always checked out at the local university library which could have implied it was a certain professor's favorite reading assignment, but the current Amazon reviews gave it an excellent grade.

I have completed the first chapter and exercises thus far. I have to say that the presentation of the first law of T.D. is very simple, but the exerices are much more challenging than the chapter contents and examples. I have broswed the other chapters and read subsections, and so far the book seems to be written very well and to the point. One of the best things about this book is the Hints for solving problems (which is really a small solution appendix). I would already have carried forward several errors if not for this material. Even if you've taken an introductory sequence in the past, it is good to lay aside your assumptions and allow Mandl to navigate you through without prior prejudice.
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alexander
5.0 out of 5 stars Good
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
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ab..c
5.0 out of 5 stars worthy book of undergraduate thermodynamics
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 15, 2015
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* Physical

This book is very well bound for a paperback and has helpful size of fonts. It is in black and white text and graphs.

* What is the book's target audience?

This book is aimed at undergraduate physics and associated sciences.

* Whats is the book's pitch then?

Statistical physics is a method to the study of physical properties of macroscopic systems, this being collections of a very large number of atoms or molecules to get around what would otherwise be an insurmountable computation in numbers of using classical mechanics equations. This gets around such as using, say, 10^23 coordinates equations in classical mechanics.

The book has a structure - showed by the flow diagram - covering the principles of thermodynamics, using physical models to clarify these topics.
There is a slim requirement of prior knowledge of the following; conservation of kinetic and potential energies, simplified atomic physics, basic forms of electrical theory in an involved formal descriptions, forms of state equations, and understanding and exposure to simplified differential and partial differential equations theory, general power series with some in the form of Taylor series, and the comprehension of calculus limits in equations. Plus some exposure of tensor analysis would be nice. And of course some statistical theory, say a- level will do.The first few chapters are explanatory and have a reduced math contact and many, many graphs that are easier and helpful to absorb and take in. The graphs include forms such as possessing rapidly increasing, with a sharp peak with a long decay, such of the form taken with Boltzmann / Maxwell and Maxwell velocity equations graphing and black body equations.

The mathematical content become steeper the further you read through the book, say after chapter 4. A lot of the mathematical graphs use combined exponential series in the greek forms of multiple products and sums. These are really tasty to grasp!

* Comment

I accidentally met a retired physics tutor on a walk. He had used this very book on a university degree course. And he discovered his students were broadly resistant to the way this book describes its topic area. He said it was too involved at its level of tutoring.

* Summary

I have enjoyed reading this book, after the 'Concepts of Thermal Physics' (below). The mathematical format of this book is deeper to grasp. Once you grasp the format it's really helpful and explanatory to study this in this way.

Concepts in Thermal Physics Paperback – 1 Oct 2009
by Stephen J. Blundell (Author), Katherine M. Blundell (Author)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Statistical Physics (Manchester Physics Series) Franz Mandl
Reviewed in Japan on January 6, 2015
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大学だいがくの教養きょうようで日本語にほんご版ばんⅠを使つかっていて、Ⅱも手てに入いれようとしたが入手にゅうしゅ不能ふのうでした。現在げんざいは原著げんちょ二に版はんが出でていたので思おもい出でとして購入こうにゅうしました。
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Amin
2.0 out of 5 stars Not a good book, good delivery though!
Reviewed in Canada on March 27, 2020
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the book arrived in good condition, but the book itself isn't great. the book I loaned from the library (by greiner) is far better.
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