Subsections
[Cr:4, Lc:3, Tt:1, Lb:0]
- Review of thermodynamics: Laws, processes, thermodynamic stability.
- Review of probability: one random variable, probability
distributions, random walks, many random variables, central limit
theorem, information, entropy and estimation.
- Kinetic Theory of gases: Liouville's theorem, Boltzmann transport
equation.
- Classical statistical mechanics: Microcanonical, canonical, and
grand canonical ensembles.
- Quantum statistical mechanics: Identical particles, Quantum
microstates and macrostates, Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac
statistics, quantum ideal gases, example systems.
- Phase transitions: Cumulant expansion, van der Waals equation,
variational methods, corresponding states, phase transitions,
critical point behaviour.
- K. Huang, Statistical Mechanics, 02nd edition, Wiley (1987).
- F. Reif, Fundamentals of Statistical and Thermal Physics,
McGraw-Hill International (1987).
- L. D. Landau & E. M. Lifshitz, Statistical Physics, 03rd
edition, Butterworth-Heinemann (1980).
- Mehran Kardar, Statistical Physics of particles, Cambridge
University Press (2007).
- W. Greiner, L. Neise, H. Stocker, and D. Rischke, Thermodynamics
and Statistical Mechanics, Springer (2001).
- S.K. Ma, Statistical Mechanics, World Scientific (1985).
