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This is an archived course. A more recent version may be available at ocw.mit.edu.
Equilibrium in statistical mechanics: systems exchanging energy are most likely to have individual energies that maximize the overall number of states. (Image by Prof. Mehran Kardar.)
Prof. Mehran Kardar
8.333
Fall 2007
Graduate
Statistical Mechanics is a probabilistic approach to equilibrium properties of large numbers of degrees of freedom. In this two-semester course, basic principles are examined. Topics include: thermodynamics, probability theory, kinetic theory, classical statistical mechanics, interacting systems, quantum statistical mechanics, and identical particles.
Kardar, Mehran. 8.333 Statistical Mechanics I: Statistical Mechanics of Particles, Fall 2007. (MIT OpenCourseWare: Massachusetts Institute of Technology), https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-333-statistical-mechanics-i-statistical-mechanics-of-particles-fall-2007 (Accessed). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
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