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
Prereqs:
none

Past Term Data

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Spring Summer Fall
(Session 1) (Session 2)
2023
Statistical Mechanics (4c)
  • Gyorgy Korniss
Seats Taken: 0/35
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