Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of constants, conversions, and prefixes
- Part I Setting the scene
- Part II Small systems
- Part III Energy and the first law
- Part IV States and the second law
- Part V Constraints
- Part VI Classical statistics
- 15 Probabilities and microscopic behaviors
- 16 Kinetic theory and transport processes in gases
- 17 Magnetic properties of materials
- 18 The partition function
- Part VII Quantum statistics
- Appendices
- Further reading
- Problem solutions
- Index
18 - The partition function
from Part VI - Classical statistics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of constants, conversions, and prefixes
- Part I Setting the scene
- Part II Small systems
- Part III Energy and the first law
- Part IV States and the second law
- Part V Constraints
- Part VI Classical statistics
- 15 Probabilities and microscopic behaviors
- 16 Kinetic theory and transport processes in gases
- 17 Magnetic properties of materials
- 18 The partition function
- Part VII Quantum statistics
- Appendices
- Further reading
- Problem solutions
- Index
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- An Introduction to Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics , pp. 382 - 398Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007