References

1. Statistical Mechanics, by Kerson Huang.
2. The Feynman Lectures on Physics, by Feynman, Leighton and Sands.
3. For self-study, more notes on thermodynamics and statistical mechanics can be found at http://www.srikant.org/core/phy11sep.html
4. Some simulations of Brownian motion are at
   http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/ hwang/gas2D/gas2D.html and
   http://www.phys.virginia.edu/classes/109N/more_stuff/Applets/brownian/brownian.html
5. Atoms are real. See for example
   http://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/section$2\_84\_14$.html
6. Boltzmann at
   http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/ history/Mathematicians/Boltzmann.html
7. Robert Brown at http://www.sciences.demon.co.uk/wbbrowna.htm
8. An article on nanotechnology with useful references may be found at
   http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/natureslaw/physics/nano.html
9. Water at http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/natureslaw/physics/water.html
10. A website explaining "why things dont go wrong more often" is at
    http://www.secondlaw.com/default.htm
11. A web demonstration of critical opalescence is at
    http://www.physicsofmatter.com/CriticalOpal/OpalFrame.html
12. Wilson at http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/ kgw/kgw.html
13. A Ising model simulation package is at at
    http://bartok.ucsc.edu/peter/java/ising/keep/ising.html .
14. A small online Ising model simulation is at
    http://www.phy.syr.edu/courses/ijmp_c/Ising.html
15. Ising at http://www.bradley.edu/las/phy/ising.html
16. An online percolation simulation package is at
    http://kzoo.edu/ jant/p705/Percolate.html
17. Percolation Theory, by D. Stauffer and A. Aharony.