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Introduction to Statistical Mechanics

Introduction to Statistical Mechanics. Instructor: Prof. Girish S. Setlur, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati. This is an introductory course in classical and quantum statistical mechanics which deals with the principle of ensembles, Classical, Fermi and Bose ideal gases, Pauli paramagnetism, Debye and Einstein's theory of specific heat and the 1D Ising model. (from nptel.ac.in)

Lecture 03 - Method of Steepest Descent

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Entropy and Saddle Point

Lecture 01 - Prerequisites and Introduction

Lecture 02 - Combinatorics and Entropy

Lecture 03 - Method of Steepest Descent

Equations of State and Thermodynamic Equilibrium

Lecture 04 - Bose and Fermi Gases

Lecture 05 - Maxwell Boltzmann Distribution

Lecture 06 - Thermodynamic Potentials

Fluctuations and Ensembles, Quantum Gas Equations of State

Lecture 07 - Legendre Transformation

Lecture 08 - Specific Heats of Quantum Gases

Lecture 09 - Low and High Temperature Equations of State

Degeneracy Pressure, Thermodynamics of Radiation and Black Hole Thermodynamics

Lecture 10 - Chandrasekhar Limit

Lecture 11 - Radiation Thermodynamics

Lecture 12 - Thermodynamics of Black Holes

Non-ideal Gas, Diamagnetism and Magnetism and Temperature

Lecture 13 - Van der Waals Fluid

Lecture 14 - Landau Diamagnetism

Lecture 15 - Relations between Ensembles and Pauli Paramagnetism

Lecture 16 - Ferromagnetism

Ising Model, Specific Heat of Solids

Lecture 17 - Correlations and Mean Field

Lecture 18 - Theories of Specific Heat of Solids

Lecture 19 - Tutorial I

Lecture 20 - Tutorial II

Lecture 21 - Tutorial III

Lecture 22 - Tutorial IV

Lecture 23 - Tutorial V

Renormalization Group Method, Optional Topics

Lecture 24 - RG Method and Ising Model

Lecture 25 - Introduction to Second Quantization: Harmonic Oscillator

Lecture 26 - Quantum Theory of EM Field

Lecture 27 - Quantum Theory of EM Field (cont.)

Lecture 28 - Creation and Annihilation in Fock Space

Lecture 29 - Creation and Annihilation in Fock Space (cont.)

Lecture 30 - Green Functions in Many Particle Systems

Lecture 31 - Second Quantised Hamiltonians

Lecture 32 - Current Algebra