Other tities in the COURSE OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS
PREFACE TO THE THIRD RUSSIAN EDITION
FROM THE PREFACES TO PREVIOUS RUSSIAN EDITIONS
Chapter 1: THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF STATISTICAL PHYSICS
§ 4 The significance of energy
§ 6 Statistical distributions in quantum statistics
§ 8 The law of increase of entropy
Chapter 2: THERMODYNAMIC QUANTITIES
§ 13 Work and quantity of heat
§ 15 The free energy and the thermodynamic potential
§ 16 Relations between the derivatives of thermodynamic quantities
§ 17 The thermodynamic scale of temperature
§ 18 The Joule-Thomson process
§ 20 Maximum work done by a body in an external medium
§ 21 Thermodynamic inequalities
§ 24 The dependence of the thermodynamic quantities on the number of particles
§ 25 Equilibrium of a body in an external field
§ 27 Thermodynamic relations in the relativistic region
Chapter 3: THE GIBBS DISTRIBUTION
§ 29 The Maxwellian distribution
§ 30 The probability distribution for an oscillator
§ 31 The free energy in the Gibbs distribution
§ 32 Thermodynamic perturbation theory
§ 34 The Gibbs distribution for rotating bodies
§ 35 The Gibbs distribution for a variable number of particles
§ 36 The derivation of the thermodynamic relations from the Gibbs distribution
§ 37 The Boltzmann distribution
§ 38 The Boltzmann distribution in classical statistics
§ 40 Ideal gases not in equilibrium
§ 41 The free energy of an ideal Boltzmann gas
§ 42 The equation of state of an ideal gas
§ 43 Ideal gases with constant specific heat
§ 46 Monatomic gases. The effect of the electronic angular momentum
§ 47 Diatomic gases with molecules of unlike atoms. Rotation of molecules
§ 48 Diatomic gases with molecules of like atoms. Rotation of molecules
§ 49 Diatomic gases. Vibrations of atoms
§ 50 Diatomic gases. The effect of the electronic angular momentum
Chapter 5: THE FERMI AND BOSE DISTRIBUTIONS
§ 55 Fermi and Bose gases not in equilibrium
§ 56 Fermi and Bose gases of elementary particles
§ 57 A degenerate electron gas
§ 58 The specific heat of a degenerate electron gas
§ 59 Magnetism of an electron gas. Weak fields
§ 60 Magnetism of an electron gas. Strong fields
§ 61 A relativistic degenerate electron gas
§ 64 Solids at low temperatures
§ 65 Solids at high temperatures
§ 66 Debye’s interpolation formula
§ 67 Thermal expansion of solids
§ 68 Highly anisotropic crystals
§ 69 Crystal lattice vibrations
§ 70 Number density of vibrations
§ 72 Phonon creation and annihilation operators
§ 74 Deviations of gases from the ideal state
§ 75 Expansion in powers of the density
§ 77 Relationship of the virial coefficient and the scattering amplitude
§ 78 Thermodynamic quantities for a classical plasma
§ 79 The method of correlation functions
§ 80 Thermodynamic quantities for a degenerate plasma
§ 81 Conditions of phase equilibrium
§ 82 The Clapeyron-Clausius formula
§ 84 The law of corresponding states
§ 85 Systems containing different particles
§ 89 Solvent phases in contact
§ 90 Equilibrium with respect to the solute
§ 91 Evolution of heat and change of volume on dissolution
§ 92 Solutions of strong electrolytes
§ 95 Vapour pressure over concentrated solutions
§ 96 Thermodynamic inequalities for solutions
§ 98 Examples of phase diagrams
§ 99 Intersection of singular curves on the equilibrium surface
Chapter 10: CHEMICAL REACTIONS
§ 101 The condition for chemical equilibrium
§ 105 Equilibrium with respect to pair production
Chapter 11: PROPERTIES OF MATTER AT VERY HIGH DENSITY
§ 106 The equation of state of matter at high density
§ 107 Equilibrium of bodies of large mass
§ 108 The energy of a gravitating body
§ 109 Equilibrium of a neutron sphere
§ 110 The Gaussian distribution
§ 111 The Gaussian distribution for more than one variable
§ 112 Fluctuations of the fundamental thermodynamic quantities
§ 113 Fluctuations in an ideal gas
§ 115 Fluctuations in solutions
§ 116 Spatial correlation of density fluctuations
§ 117 Correlation of density fluctuations in a degenerate gas
§ 118 Correlations of fluctuations in time
§ 119 Time correlations of the fluctuations of more than one variable
§ 120 The symmetry of the kinetic coefficients
§ 121 The dissipative function
§ 122 Spectral resolution of fluctuations
§ 123 The generalised susceptibility
§ 124 The fluctuation-dissipation theorem
§ 125 The fluctuation-dissipation theorem for more than one variable
§ 126 The operator form of the generalised susceptibility
§ 127 Fluctuations in the curvature of long molecules
Chapter 13: THE SYMMETRY OF CRYSTALS
§ 128 Symmetry elements of a crystal lattice
§ 134 Irreducible representations of space groups
§ 135 Symmetry under time reversal
§ 136 Symmetry properties of normal vibrations of a crystal lattice
§ 137 Structures periodic in one and two dimensions
§ 138 The correlation function in two-dimensional systems
§ 139 Symmetry with respect to orientation of molecules
§ 140 Nematic and cholesteric liquid crystals
§ 141 Fluctuations in liquid crystals
Chapter 14: PHASE TRANSITIONS OF THE SECOND KIND AND CRITICAL PHENOMENA
§ 142 Phase transitions of the second kind
§ 143 The discontinuity of specific heat
§ 144 Effect of an external field on a phase transition
§ 145 Change in symmetry in a phase transition of the second kind
§ 146 Fluctuations of the order parameter
§ 147 The effective Hamiltonian
§ 150 Isolated and critical points of continuous transition
§ 151 Phase transitions of the second kind in a two-dimensional lattice
§ 152 Van der Waals theory of the critical point
§ 153 Fluctuation theory of the critical point
§ 155 Surface tension of crystals
§ 157 Surface tension of solutions
§ 158 Surface tension of solutions of strong electrolytes
§ 162 Nucleation in phase transitions
§ 163 The impossibility of the existence of phases in one-dimensional systems