"Version: 202111"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Why phase space? -- 1.2. Why not direct quantum methods? -- 1.3. Advantages and challenges of phase space -- 1.4. Old applications, new perspectives2. Wave packet formulation -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Wave packets as eigenfunctions in the classical limit -- 2.3. Wave packet symmetrization and over…
"Version: 20230401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Entropy counts : universal nature of the statistical entropy -- 1.1. Entropy, weight, probability, and information -- 1.2. A combinatorial example -- 1.3. Entropy and the Second Law -- 1.4. Nature of probability and randomness2. Variational formulation of equilibrium thermodynamics via entropy and free energy -- 2.1. E…
"Version: 20180501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Entropy counts -- 1.1. Entropy, weight, probability, and information -- 1.2. A combinatorial example -- 1.3. Entropy and the second law -- 1.4. Nature of probability and randomness2. Entropy varies -- 2.1. Entropy of an isolated system -- 2.2. Heat reservoir and the Helmholtz free energy -- 2.3. Various reservoirs -- 2…
"Version: 20151001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Author biography -- 1 Probability operator and statistical averages -- 1.1 Expectation, density operator and averages -- 1.2 Uniform weight density of wave space -- 1.3 Canonical equilibrium system -- 1.4 Environmental selection -- 1.5 Wave function collapse and the classical universe2 Examples and applications…