Physics 140A

Books

Fall 2000

The textbook is Thermal Physics, by Ralph Baierlein (Cambridge University Press, 1999).

Here are some additional references:

• F. Reif, Fundamentals of Statistical and Thermal Physics McGraw-Hill, 1965). This is a standard text for a course at the level of Physics 140 and could well have been chosen as the textbook. It will be used to supplement Baierlein's book in 140B.
• L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifschitz, Statistical Physics (Pergamon Press, 1969). This is the graduate level book on our subject.
• Gregory H. Wannier, Statistical Physics (Wiley, 1966). This is a gentler graduate level book.

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