Statistical Physics: Reading Assignments

• [May 8] Entropy, information, and computation

J. Machta, Am. J. Phys. Vol. 67, No. 12, p. 1074 (1999).
• [May 1] Planck's Legacy to Statistical Physics

G. Parisi, cond-mat/0101293, (2001).
• [Apr. 24] Satyendranath Bose: co-founder of quantum statistics

W. A. Blanpied, Am. J. Phys. Vol. 40, No. 9, p. 1212 (1972).
• [Apr. 17] A simple derivation of the distribution functions for Bose and Fermi statistics

H. Schmidt, Am. J. Phys. Vol. 57, No. 4, p. 1150 (1989).
• [Mar. 27] The fraction of "all different" combinations: justifying the semiclassical partition function

R. Baierlein, Am. J. Phys. Vol. 65, No. 4, p. 314 (1997).
• [Mar. 01] Rudolf Clausius and the road to entropy

W. H. Cropper, Am. J. Phys. Vol. 54, No. 12, p. 1068 (1986).
• [Feb. 27] Insight into entropy

D. F. Styer, Am. J. Phys. Vol. 68, No. 12, p. 1090 (2000).
• [Feb. 15] Heat is not noun

R. H. Romer, Am. J. Phys. Vol. 69, No. 2, p. 107 (2001).
• [Feb. 08] Our texbook's review

G. Cook, Am. J. Phys. Vol. 67, No. 12, p. 1285 (1999).