Statistical Mechanics is a big branch of modern physics that studies properties of macroscopic systems, typically having large number of degrees of freedom, for example, gases or fluids. In such situation as one can suspect it is too difficult to give precise answers about microscopic behaviour of systems. How- ever, some macroscopic characteristics still can be investigated and that amounts to finding certain probability distributions.
Book:
John Baez and Javier P. Muniain, Gauge fields, knots and gravity
Term:
Spring
Year:
2016