TY - BOOK ID - 385574 TI - A kinetic view of statistical physics AU - Krapivsky, Pavel L. AU - Redner, Sidney AU - Ben-Naim, E. PY - 2010 SN - 9780521851039 9780511780516 9780511909825 0511909829 9780511907029 0511907028 0511780516 0521851033 1107218365 1139637304 1282797670 9786612797675 0511909063 0511905742 0511908318 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Statistical physics KW - Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics KW - Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics. KW - Statistical physics. KW - Physics KW - Mathematical statistics KW - Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics KW - Statistical mechanics KW - Statistical methods UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:385574 AB - Aimed at graduate students, this book explores some of the core phenomena in non-equilibrium statistical physics. It focuses on the development and application of theoretical methods to help students develop their problem-solving skills. The book begins with microscopic transport processes: diffusion, collision-driven phenomena, and exclusion. It then presents the kinetics of aggregation, fragmentation and adsorption, where the basic phenomenology and solution techniques are emphasized. The following chapters cover kinetic spin systems, both from a discrete and a continuum perspective, the role of disorder in non-equilibrium processes, hysteresis from the non-equilibrium perspective, the kinetics of chemical reactions, and the properties of complex networks. The book contains 200 exercises to test students' understanding of the subject. A link to a website hosted by the authors, containing supplementary material including solutions to some of the exercises, can be found at www.cambridge.org/9780521851039. ER -