written by
Dr. Charles Kittel and
Dr. Herbert Kroemer
This textbook is for upper division courses in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. This text focuses on the quantum treatment of statistical mechanics. The companion website includes updated material and an instructor's manual (registration required).
Author: Bill Franz
Posted: June 30, 2006 at 2:01PM
Rarely does a senior professor encounter a text that still works after the test of many years. Kittel's Thermal Physics is such a work. The fundamentals are clearly presented, the problems are still relavant, and students find the book very readable.
We used this text for our Stat Mech course and I really like it. It can be a little dense in some places, but overall it's readable and just about the right level of difficulty for a senior physics course. There are many excellent problems included. Definitely a worthwhile investment...
I used this book during my Thermal Phisics course at Berkeley, and it was great. The derivations are concise and the explanations are thorough. I really enjoyed the excersises in this book as well, they follow the subject matter of each chapter very well, elucidating many of the inticacies that a first time stat mech student encounters.
Kittel, C., & Kroemer, H. (1980). Thermal Physics (2nd Edition ed., pp. 496). Retrieved November 21, 2009, from http://www.whfreeman.com/newcatalog.aspx?isbn=0716710889
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