Statistical Mechanics For Beginners: A Textbook For Undergraduates - Benguigui, Lucien Gilles (Technion - Israel Inst Of Tech, Israel)

Suitable for undergraduate students on a basic course in statistical mechanics, this textbook begins with a study of three situations - the closed system and the systems in thermal contact with a reservoir - in order to formulate the important fundamentals: entropy from Boltzmann formula, partition function and grand partition function.