Why did we write a second edition？ A minor revision of the first editionwould have been adequate to correct the （admittedly many） typographicalmistakes. However, many of the nice comments that we received from stu-dents and colleagues alike, ended with a remark of the type: "unfortunately,you don't discuss topic x".

Preface to the Second Edition
Preface
List of Symbols
1 Introduction
Part 1 Basics
　2 Statistical Mechanics
　　2.1 Entropy and Temperature
　　2.2 Classical Statistical Mechanics
　　2.2.1 Ergodicity
　　2.3 Questions and Exercises
　3 Monte Carlo Simulations
　　3.1 The Monte Carlo Method
　　3.1.1 Importance Sampling
　　3.1.2 The Metropolis Method
　　3.2 A Basic Monte Carlo Algorithm Preface to the Second Edition
Preface
List of Symbols
1 Introduction
Part 1 Basics
　2 Statistical Mechanics
　　2.1 Entropy and Temperature
　　2.2 Classical Statistical Mechanics
　　2.2.1 Ergodicity
　　2.3 Questions and Exercises
　3 Monte Carlo Simulations
　　3.1 The Monte Carlo Method
　　3.1.1 Importance Sampling
　　3.1.2 The Metropolis Method
　　3.2 A Basic Monte Carlo Algorithm
　　　3.2.1 The Algorithm
　　　3.2.2 Technical Details
　　　3.2.3 Detailed Balance versus Balance
　　3.3 Trial Moves
　　　3.3.1 Translational Moves
　　　3.3.2 Orientational Moves
　　3.4 Applications
　　3.5 Questions and Exercises
　4 Molecular Dynamics Simulations
　　4.1 Molecular Dynamics: The Idea
　　4.2 Molecular Dynamics: A Program
　　　4.2.1 Initialization
　　　4.2.2 The Force Calculation
　　　4.2.3 Integrating the Equations of Motion
　　4.3 Equations of Motion
　　　4.3.1 Other Algorithms
　　　4.3.2 Higher-Order Schemes
　　　4.3.3 LiouviUe Formulation of Time-Reversible Algorithms
　　　4.3.4 Lyapunov Instability
　　　4.3.5 One More Way to Look at the Verlet Algorithm
　　4.4 Computer Experiments
　　　4.4.1 Diffusion
　　　4.4.2 Order-Algorithm to Measure Correlations
　　4.5 Some Applications
　　4.6 Questions and Exercises
Part 2 Ensembles
Part 3 Free Energies and Phase Equilibria
Part 4 Advanced Techniques
Part 5 Appendices