I come from a statistics background and don't have much knowledge of physics. I need to gain bit of knowledge in statistical physics for one of the projects that I work on. I started looking at Reichl's and Kardar's book, but realized I needed some introductory material first on these topics.
Schroeder's book on thermodynamics was actually quite a nice introduction to that part of statistical physics. It explained a lot of the intuition behind the models as well as some of the formalism. I was wondering if anyone could suggest a similar type of introductory book for kinetics, meaning things like the Fokker-Planck equation, the Langevin equation, and the master equation, etc. I am just looking for something that provides a bit more explanation and intuition before I dive into the formalism.
Any suggestions would really be appreciated.
