BASICS OF STATISTICAL PHYSICS (SECOND EDITION) : World Scientific Publishing : 9789814449533 : 9814449539 : 04 Apr 2013 : Statistics links microscopic and macroscopic phenomena, and requires for this reason a large number of microscopic elements like atoms. The results are values of maximum probability or of averaging.This book provides an introduction to statistical physics, focusing on the basic principles, and attempts to explain them in simple terms supplemented by numerous examples. These principles include the difference between classical and quantum statistics, the a priori probabilities as related to degeneracies, the vital aspect of indistinguishability as compared with distinguishability in classical physics, the differences between conserved and non-conserved elements, the different ways of counting arrangements in statistics (Maxwell?Boltzmann, Fermi?Dirac, Bose?Einstein), the difference between maximization of the number of arrangements of elements, and averaging in the Da