Publisher's Synopsis
Ideal for the readers without any prior knowledge of the statistical mechanics, this book offers a different perspective on the subject, prioritising relativistic systems over the norm of condensed matter physics. This paves the way to various applications of statistical mechanics to areas like Astrophysics and Cosmology. Non-relativistic systems and their applications to Condensed Matter Physics are not abandoned either: there are discussions on gases, liquids and magnetic systems. The book ends with one chapter on Phase Transitions and one on Boltzmann equation offering perspective encompassing many branches of Physics.
