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Statistical mechanics : = entropy, order parameters, and complexity /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Statistical mechanics :/ James P. Sethna
Reminder of title:	entropy, order parameters, and complexity /
remainder title:	Entropy, order parameters, and complexity
Author:	Sethna, James P.
Published:	Oxford :Oxford University Press, : 2021,
Description:	xxvi, 464 p. :ill. ;26 cm.
Notes:	Previous edition: 2006.
[NT 15003449]:	What is statistical mechanics? -- Random walks and emergent properties -- Temperature and equilibrium -- Phase-space dynamics and ergodicity -- Entropy -- Free energies -- Quantum statistical mechanics -- Calculation and computation -- Order parameters, broken symmetry, and topology -- Correlations, response, and dissipation -- Abrupt phase transitions -- Continuous phase transitions.
Subject:	Statistical mechanics. -
ISBN:	9780198865247

Statistical mechanics : = entropy, order parameters, and complexity /
Sethna, James P.

Statistical mechanics :entropy, order parameters, and complexity /Entropy, order parameters, and complexityJames P. Sethna - 2nd ed. - Oxford :Oxford University Press,2021 - xxvi, 464 p. :ill. ;26 cm. - Oxford master series in physics ;14. - Oxford master series in physics ;14.

Previous edition: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What is statistical mechanics? -- Random walks and emergent properties -- Temperature and equilibrium -- Phase-space dynamics and ergodicity -- Entropy -- Free energies -- Quantum statistical mechanics -- Calculation and computation -- Order parameters, broken symmetry, and topology -- Correlations, response, and dissipation -- Abrupt phase transitions -- Continuous phase transitions.

"Statistical mechanics is our tool for deriving the laws that emerge from complex systems. Sethna's text distills the subject to be accessible to those in all realms of science and engineering -- avoiding extensive use of quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, and molecular physics. Statistical mechanics explains how bacteria search for food, and how DNA replication is proof-read in biology; optimizes data compression, and explains transitions in complexity in computer science; explains the onset of chaos, and launched random matrix theory in mathematics; addresses extreme events in engineering; and models pandemics and language usage in the social sciences. Sethna's exercises introduce physicists to these triumphs and a hundred others -- broadening the horizons of scholars both practicing and nascent. Flipped classrooms and remote learning can now rely on 33 pre-class exercises that test reading comprehension (Emergent vs. fundamental; Weirdness in high dimensions; Aging, entropy and DNA), and 70 in-class activities that illuminate and broaden knowledge (Card shuffling; Human correlations; Crackling noises). Science is awash in information, providing ready access to definitions, explanations, and pedagogy. Sethna's text focuses on the tools we use to create new laws, and on the fascinating simple behavior in complex systems that statistical mechanics explains"--

ISBN: 9780198865247UK58.99Subjects--Topical Terms:

520584
Statistical mechanics.

LC Class. No.: QC174.8 / .S48 2021

Dewey Class. No.: 530.13

Statistical mechanics : = entropy, order parameters, and complexity /
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520 # $a "Statistical mechanics is our tool for deriving the laws that emerge from complex systems. Sethna's text distills the subject to be accessible to those in all realms of science and engineering -- avoiding extensive use of quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, and molecular physics. Statistical mechanics explains how bacteria search for food, and how DNA replication is proof-read in biology; optimizes data compression, and explains transitions in complexity in computer science; explains the onset of chaos, and launched random matrix theory in mathematics; addresses extreme events in engineering; and models pandemics and language usage in the social sciences. Sethna's exercises introduce physicists to these triumphs and a hundred others -- broadening the horizons of scholars both practicing and nascent. Flipped classrooms and remote learning can now rely on 33 pre-class exercises that test reading comprehension (Emergent vs. fundamental; Weirdness in high dimensions; Aging, entropy and DNA), and 70 in-class activities that illuminate and broaden knowledge (Card shuffling; Human correlations; Crackling noises). Science is awash in information, providing ready access to definitions, explanations, and pedagogy. Sethna's text focuses on the tools we use to create new laws, and on the fascinating simple behavior in complex systems that statistical mechanics explains"-- $c Provided by publisher.
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