Looking for a solid Introductory Statisical Mechanics textbook.

[L-x]

Title says it all really, I'm a second year undergraduate from oxford, and currently the textbook I've been using for stat. mech. is "Concepts in Thermal Physics", which was wirtten by my lecturer. I'd like (ideally) something a bit longer to work through suring the holidays, that would provide a complete introduction to the subject (in a similar style to Shankar's "Principles of Quantum Mechanics" and Griffiths's "Introduction to Electrodynamics").

Thanks,
Alex

 

[Dr Transport]

Reif's book from the Berkely Series is a reasonably decent text

 

[rhombusjr]

Reif's book from the Berkely Series is a reasonably decent text

I've heard good things about this book. Although it is out of print, but you can find the international edition floating around. Reif's currently in-print book is at a slightly higher level, but is supposed to be very good.

 

[dextercioby]

I recommend the thermodynamics and statistics book from the Greiner series. Because you have in the same book the necessary knowledge on thermodynamics when discussing the thermodynamical limit of statistical ensembles.

 

[A. Neumaier]

Title says it all really, I'm a second year undergraduate from oxford, and currently the textbook I've been using for stat. mech. is "Concepts in Thermal Physics", which was wirtten by my lecturer. I'd like (ideally) something a bit longer to work through suring the holidays, that would provide a complete introduction to the subject (in a similar style to Shankar's "Principles of Quantum Mechanics" and Griffiths's "Introduction to Electrodynamics").

Try Part 2 of http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/0810.1019

Reichl's ''A modern course in statistical physics'' is also very good, since it shows you the breadth of the subject.

 

[Andy Resnick]

I'm not a fan of Reif's book. As an introductory text, Dill and Bromberg's book is decent:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0815320515/?tag=pfamazon01-20