内容简介　　In this edition the book has been considerably augmented and revised，with the assistance of L.P.Potaevskil throughout.
　　New xections have been added on the magnetic properties of gases，the thermodynamics of a degenerate plasma，liquid crystals，the fluctuation theory of phase transitions of the second kind，and critical phenomena.……目录Preface to the third Russian edition
From the prefaces to previous Russian editions
Nolation
Ⅰ.THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF STATISTICAL PHYSICS
1.Statistical distributions
2.Statistical independence
3.Liouvilles theorem
4.The significance of energy
5.The statistical matrix
6.Statistical distributions in quantum statistics
7.Entropy
8.The law of incrcase ofentropy

Ⅱ.THERMODYNAMIC QUANTITIES
9.Temperature
10.Macroscopic motion
11.Adiabatic processes
12.Pressure
13.Work and quantity of heat
14.The heat function
15.The free energy and the therrnodynamic potential
16.Relations between the derivatives of thermodynamic quantities
17.The thermodynamic scale of temperature
18.The Joule-Thomson process
19.Maximum work
20.Maximum work done by a body in an extemal medium
21.Thermodynamic inequalities
22.Le Chateliers principle
23.Nemsts theorem
24.The dependence of the thermodynamic quantities on the number of particles
25.Equilibrium of a body in an extemal field
26.Rotating bodies
27.Thermodynamic relations in the relativistic region

Ⅲ.THE GIBBS DISTRIBUTION
28.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
33.Expansion in powers of fi
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

Ⅳ.IDEAL GASES
37.The Boltzmann distribution
38.The Boltzmann distribution in classical statistics
39.Molecular collisions
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
44.The law of equipartition
45.Monatomic ideal gases
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 moleculcs
49.Diatomic gases.Vibrations of atoms
50.Diatomic gases.The effect of the electronic angular momentum
51.Polyatomic gases
52.Magnetism of gases

Ⅴ.THE FERMl AND BOSE DISTRIBUTIONS
53.The Fermi distribution
54.The Bose distribution
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
62.A degenerate Bose gas
63.Black-body radiation

Ⅵ.SOLIDS
64.Solids at low temperatures
65.Solids at high temperatures
66.Debyes interpolation formula
67.Thennal expansion of solids
68.Highly anisotropic crystals
69.Crystal lattice vibrations
70.Number density of vibrations
71.Phonons
72.Phonon creation and annihilation operators
73.Negative temperatures

Ⅶ.NON-IDEAL GASES
74.Deviations of gases from the ideal state
75.Expansion in powers of the density
76.Van der Waals formula
77.Relationship of the virial coefflcient and the scattering amplitude
78.Thermodynamic quantities for a classical plasma
79.The method of correlation functions
80.Thermodynamic quantities for a degenerate plasma

Ⅷ.PHASE EQUILIBRIUM
81.Conditions of phase equilibrium
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Ⅸ.SOLUTIONS
Ⅹ.CHEMICAL REACTIONS
Ⅺ.PROPERTIES OF MATTER AT VERY HIGH DENSITY
Ⅻ.FLUCTUATIONS
ⅩⅢ.THE SYMMETRY OF CRYSTAL.S
ⅩⅣ.IV.PHASE TRANSITIONS OF THE SECOND KIND AND CRITICAL PHENOMENA
ⅩⅤ.SURFACES
Index