8.333 Statistical Mechanics, Fall 2002
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Author(s)
Todadri, Senthil
Alternative Title
Statistical Mechanics
Date Issued
December 2002
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.
Subjects
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
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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