Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics
Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics. Instructor: Professor V. Balakrishnan, Department of Physics, IIT Madras. Thermal fluctuations, Langevin dynamics, Brownian motion and diffusion, Fokker-Planck equations, linear response theory, fluctuation-dissipation relations, the Boltzmann equation, critical phenomena, scaling and critical exponents. (from nptel.ac.in)
| Lecture 24 - The Boltzmann Equation for a Dilute Gas (Part 2) |
The equilibrium distribution: sufficiency condition. Boltzmann's H Theorem. The equilibrium distribution: necessary condition. The Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution. Equilibrium distribution in a potential.
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