| dc.contributor.author | Kardar, Mehran | en_US |
| dc.coverage.temporal | Spring 2004 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2004-06 | |
| dc.identifier | 8.334-Spring2004 | |
| dc.identifier | local: 8.334 | |
| dc.identifier | local: IMSCP-MD5-d894f20755409523813498c0577954aa | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/45586 | |
| dc.description.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. | en_US |
| dc.language | en-US | en_US |
| dc.relation | | en_US |
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| dc.subject | the hydrodynamic limit and classical field theories | en_US |
| dc.subject | The renormalization approach to collective phenomena | en_US |
| dc.subject | Dynamic critical behavior | en_US |
| dc.subject | Random systems | en_US |
| dc.subject | Phase transitions and broken symmetries: universality, correlation functions, and scaling theory | en_US |
| dc.subject | Statistical mechanics | en_US |
| dc.title | 8.334 Statistical Mechanics II: Statistical Mechanics of Fields, Spring 2004 | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | Statistical Mechanics II: Statistical Mechanics of Fields | en_US |
| dc.type | Learning Object | |
| dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics | |
