James P.Sethna
Statistical Mechanics: Entropy, Order Parameters, and Complexity: Second Edition
Statistical Mechanics: Entropy, Order Parameters, and Complexity: Second Edition
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Statistical mechanics is a tool for deriving laws from complex systems, accessible to scientists and engineers. It explains bacteria searching for food, DNA replication, data compression, computer science, chaos, engineering, pandemics, and language usage. Sethna's exercises introduce physicists to these triumphs and broaden the horizons of scholars.
Format: Hardback
Length: 496 pages
Publication date: 26 January 2021
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Statistical mechanics serves as a powerful tool for deriving the laws that govern complex systems. In his concise text, Sethna aims to make the subject accessible to individuals from various scientific and engineering disciplines, avoiding the extensive use of quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, and molecular physics.
Statistical mechanics provides insights into diverse phenomena, ranging from the behavior of bacteria in searching for food to the proofreading of DNA replication in biology. It optimizes data compression, explains transitions in complexity in computer science, elucidates the onset of chaos, and pioneered random matrix theory in mathematics. Furthermore, it addresses extreme events in engineering, models pandemics and language usage in the social sciences, and introduces physicists to numerous triumphs and discoveries.
Sethna's exercises are designed to broaden the horizons of scholars, both practicing and nascent. The book includes 33 pre-class exercises that test reading comprehension, including topics such as Emergent vs. fundamental; Weirdness in high dimensions; Aging, entropy, and DNA. Additionally, 70 in-class activities are provided to illuminate and broaden knowledge, covering topics such as Card shuffling; Human correlations; and Crackling noises.
The field of science is abundant with information, offering ready access to definitions, explanations, and pedagogical resources. Sethna's text primarily focuses on the tools we employ to create new laws and on the fascinating simple behavior in complex systems that statistical mechanics elucidates.
Weight: 1208g
Dimension: 195 x 253 x 33 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780198865247
Edition number: 2 Revised edition
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