Daniel V.
Schroeder,
Department of
Physics, Weber State University
- Ralph Baierlein, Thermal Physics (Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge, 1999). This well-written, up-to-date
textbook emphasizes the statistical approach and includes a section
applying the renormalization group to the Ising model. Reviews of
this book can be found in the December 1999 issue of AJP and in the
August 2000 issue of Physics Today.
- Howard C. Berg, Random Walks in Biology (Princeton
University Press, Princeton, 1983). A nice short monograph on transport
theory and its biological applications.
- The December 1999 issue of Physics Today has two
interesting articles on Bose-Einstein condensation, describing
recent progress in both theory and experiments.
- The December 1999 issue of
American Journal of Physics
is devoted entirely to statistical and thermal physics. Every
thermal physics student will find something of interest in this
issue. It also contains a book review that may be of interest.
If you have an individual or institutional electronic subscription, you can access
this issue online at AIP's Online Journal
Publishing Service.
- The December 2000 issue of
American Journal of Physics has two
excellent articles on thermal physics: "Experiments in statistical mechanics"
by Jeffrey J. Prentis, and "Insight into entropy" by Daniel F. Styer. This
issue also contains reviews of a new thermal physics textbook by Ashley Carter,
and of Atmospheric Thermodynamics by Bohren and Albrecht.
Last modified on November 18, 2000.