Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Microstates and macrostates, statistical ensembles, entropy and other thermodynamic functions, equilibrium, variational principles, functional integration methods. Applications: ideal gas, oscillators, rotors, elasticity, paramagnetism. Indistinguishable particles, Fermi/Dirac and Bose/Einstein distributions. Applications: electron gas, neutron stars, white dwarfs, Bose/Einstein condensation. Kinetics. Letter grading.

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Mar 11, 3 PM PST
LEC 1: 23/40 seats taken (Open)
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  • LEC 1

    Open (7 seats)

    WF 2pm-3:50pm

    Physics and Astronomy Building 2434

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Instructor
Sudip Chakravarty
Previously taught
23S

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