# Statistical Mechanics

## PHYS-6590

Review of thermodynamics, probability, and statistics. Statistical basis of thermodynamics, various ensembles, quantum statistics. Ideal Fermi and Bose gases and applications to solids and the black-body radiation. Interacting systems, phase transitions, and critical phenomena. Phase transition in the Van der Waals gas and in the Ising ferromagnet. Mean-field approximation and Landau theory of continuous phase transitions. Random walk, diffusion, Brownian motion, and Langevin equation. Stochastic processes.

4 credits
Corequisites:
PHYS-6510 Quantum Mechanics I
Prereqs:
none

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2026 |  |  |

2025

Statistical Mechanics (4c)

- Gyorgy Korniss

Seats Taken: 18/35

2024

Statistical Mechanics (4c)

- Gyorgy Korniss

Seats Taken: 16/35

2023

Statistical Mechanics (4c)

- Gyorgy Korniss

Seats Taken: 12/35

2022

Statistical Mechanics (4c)

- Gyorgy Korniss

Seats Taken: 10/35

2021

Statistical Mechanics (4c)

- Gyorgy Korniss

Seats Taken: 13/35

2020

Statistical Mechanics (4c)

- John Schroeder

Seats Taken: 8/35

2019

Statistical Mechanics (4c)

- John Schroeder

Seats Taken: 15/35

2018

Statistical Mechanics (4c)

- Peter Persans
- John Schroeder

Seats Taken: 14/35

2017

Statistical Mechanics (4c)

- Peter Persans
- John Schroeder

Seats Taken: 7/35

2016

Statistical Mechanics (4c)

- Peter Persans
- John Schroeder

Seats Taken: 15/35

2015

Statistical Mechanics (4c)

- Peter Persans
- John Schroeder

Seats Taken: 13/35

2014

Statistical Mechanics (4c)

- Peter Persans
- John Schroeder

Seats Taken: 21/35

2013

Statistical Mechanics (4c)

- Peter Persans
- John Schroeder

Seats Taken: 30/35

2012

Statistical Mechanics (4c)

- Peter Persans
- John Schroeder

Seats Taken: 11/25

2011

Statistical Mechanics (4c)

- Peter Persans
- Angel Enrique Garcia

Seats Taken: 20/25

2010

Statistical Mechanics (4c)

- Peter Persans
- Angel Enrique Garcia

Seats Taken: 22/25

2009

Statistical Mechanics (4c)

- Peter Persans
- Angel Enrique Garcia

Seats Taken: 15/25

2008

Statistical Mechanics (4c)

- Peter Persans
- Gyorgy Korniss

Seats Taken: 17/25

2007

Statistical Mechanics (4c)

- Gyorgy Korniss

Seats Taken: 21/25

2006

Statistical Mechanics (3c)

- Gyorgy Korniss

Seats Taken: 19/40

2005

Statistical Mechanics (3c)

- Gyorgy Korniss

Seats Taken: 26/40

2004

Statistical Mechanics (3c)

- Gyorgy Korniss

Seats Taken: 15/30

2003

Statistical Mechanics (3c)

- Gyorgy Korniss

Seats Taken: 11/30

2002

Statistical Mechanics (3c)

- Gyorgy Korniss

Seats Taken: 11/30

2001

Statistical Mechanics (3c)

- John Schroeder

Seats Taken: 13/30

2000

Statistical Mechanics (3c)

- John Schroeder

Seats Taken: 7/30

1999

Statistical Mechanics (3c)

- Joseph W Haus Jr

Seats Taken: 12/30

1998 |  |  |