8.334 Statistical Mechanics II, Spring 2003
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| Title: | 8.334 Statistical Mechanics II, Spring 2003 |
| Author: | Levitov, Leonid |
| Issue Date: | 2003-06 |
| Abstract: | A two-semester course on statistical mechanics. Basic principles are examined in 8.333: the laws of thermodynamics and the concepts of temperature, work, heat, and entropy. Postulates of classical statistical mechanics, microcanonical, canonical, and grand canonical distributions; applications to lattice vibrations, ideal gas, photon gas. Quantum statistical mechanics; Fermi and Bose systems. Interacting systems: cluster expansions, van der Waal's gas, and mean-field theory. Topics from modern statistical mechanics are explored in 8.334: the hydrodynamic limit and classical field theories. Phase transitions and broken symmetries: universality, correlation functions, and scaling theory. The renormalization approach to collective phenomena. Dynamic critical behavior. Random systems. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/35902 |
| Other Identifiers: | 8.334-Spring2003 |
| Other Identifiers: | 8.334 IMSCP-MD5-8fbdb7d5c5328586b6430943ed3b17f2 |
| Keywords: | the hydrodynamic limit and classical field theories, Phase transitions and broken symmetries: universality, correlation functions, and scaling theory, The renormalization approach to collective phenomena, Dynamic critical behavior, Random systems, Statistical mechanics, 141101, Engineering Mechanics |
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