Essential Advanced Physics is a series
comprising four parts:Classical Mechanics,Classical Electrodynamics,Quantum
Mechanics andStatistical Mechanics. Each part consists of two volumes,Lecture notes andProblems with solutions, further
supplemented by an additional collection of test problems and solutions
available to qualifying university instructors. This
volume is
intended to be the basis for a one-semester course on
thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. The
structure of the course is mostly traditional though, due
to the current interest in nanoscale systems and ultrasensitive physical
measurements, large attention is given to classical and quantum
fluctuations of various physical variables. A brief
introduction to physics kinetics is also included.