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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)

Introduction


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

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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.