8.333 Statistical Mechanics, Fall 2002

Todadri, Senthil

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Todadri, Senthil

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Statistical Mechanics

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Abstract

8.333 is the first course in a two-semester sequence 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, micro canonical, 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.

Date issued

2002-12

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/35857

Department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics

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8.333-Fall2002

local: 8.333

local: IMSCP-MD5-e1951e8e5b4b6c12159cdebdc2b2bad8

Keywords

hermodynamics, entropy, mehanics, microcanonical distributions, canonical distributions, grand canonical distributions, lattice vibrations, ideal gas, photon gas, quantum statistical mechanics, Fermi systems, Bose systems, cluster expansions, van der Waal's gas, mean-field theory, Statistical mechanics

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