This textbook carefully develops the main ideas and techniques of statistical and thermal physics and is intended for upper-level undergraduate courses. The authors each have more than thirty years' experience in teaching, curriculum development, and research in statistical and computational physics.
Statistical and Thermal Physics begins with a qualitative discussion of the relation between the macroscopic and microscopic worlds and incorporates computer simulations throughout the book to provide concrete examples of important conceptual ideas. Unlike many contemporary texts on thermal physics, this book presents thermodynamic reasoning as an independent way of thinking about macroscopic systems. Probability concepts and techniques are introduced, including topics that are useful for understanding how probability and statistics are used. Magnetism and the Ising model are considered in greater depth than in most undergraduate texts, and ideal quantum gases are treated within a uniform framework. Advanced chapters on fluids and critical phenomena are appropriate for motivated undergraduates and beginning graduate students.
- Integrates Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulations as well as other numerical techniques throughout the text
- Provides self-contained introductions to thermodynamics and statistical mechanics
- Discusses probability concepts and methods in detail
- Contains ideas and methods from contemporary research
- Includes advanced chapters that provide a natural bridge to graduate study
- Features more than 400 problems
- Programs are open source and available in an executable cross-platform format

- Solutions manual (available only to teachers)

这本教科书仔细阐述了统计和热物理学的主要观点和技术，适用于高年级的本科课程。作者在统计和计算物理学的教学、课程开发和研究方面都有超过30年的经验。

统计与热物理学》首先对宏观世界和微观世界之间的关系进行了定性讨论，并在全书中加入了计算机模拟，以提供重要概念的具体实例。与当代许多热物理学著作不同，本书将热力学推理作为思考宏观系统的一种独立方式。介绍了概率概念和技术，包括对理解如何使用概率和统计学有帮助的主题。磁学和Ising模型的考虑比大多数本科生教材更深入，理想量子气体在一个统一的框架内被处理。关于流体和临界现象的高级章节适合于有动力的本科生和初学的研究生。

- 将蒙特卡洛和分子动力学模拟以及其他数值技术贯穿全文

- 提供独立的热力学和统计力学的介绍

- 详细论述了概率概念和方法

- 包含当代研究中的观点和方法

- 包括高级章节，为研究生学习提供了一个自然的桥梁

- 有400多个问题

- 程序是开放源码的，以可执行的跨平台格式提供

- 解决方案手册（只提供给教师）。