The textbook outlines the fundamentals of statistical thermodynamics using classical and quantum models of matter, as well as the relationship between statistical and phenomenological thermodynamics. Methods of statistical calculations of thermodynamic functions and other characteristics of an ideal gas and real systems are considered: real gases, liquids, solutions and solids, as well as statistical theories of chemical equilibrium, adsorption and elementary chemical acts.

For students of higher chemical specialties educational institutions, as well as graduate students, teachers and researchers.

2nd ed., rev. and additional / M.: BINOM. Knowledge Laboratory, 2005. - 495 pp.: ill. — ISBN 5-94774-084-2.