PHYS 5310 - Statistical Mechanics I

Course last offered 

 :   

Fall 2018/19

Instructor(s)

 :

FOREMAN Bradley Alan

No. of credits

 :

3



Teaching Pattern

  • Duration of course: about 13 weeks

  • Lecture hour(s) per week: 3

 

Content

  • Laws and applications of thermodynamics
  • Kinetic theory
  • Transport phenomena
  • Classical statistical mechanics
  • Canonical and grand canonical ensemble
  • Quantum statistical mechanics
  • Fermi and Bose systems
  • Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics