Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
1
Title (text only)
Statistical Mechanics
Term
2024C
Subject area
PHYS
Section number only
001
Section ID
PHYS6611001
Course number integer
6611
Meeting times
MW 10:15 AM-11:44 AM
Level
graduate
Instructors
Randall Kamien
Description
Introduction to the canonical structure and formulation of modern statistical mechanics. The thermodynamic limit. Entropic and depletion forces. Gas and liquid theory. Phase transitions and critical phenomena. The virial expansion. Quantum statistics. Path integrals, the Fokker-Planck equation and stochastic processes.
Course number only
6611
Use local description
No