Statistical Physics [Jan - May, 2019]

The course will comprise of the following chapters

Chapter 1: Probability

[PDF] One Random Variable

[PDF] Moments & Cumulants

[PDF] Important Probability Distributions

[PDF] Many Random Variables

[PDF] Central Limit Theorem

[PDF] Entropy & Probability

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Chapter 2: Classical Statistical Mechanics

[PDF] Micro-canonical Ensemble

[PDF] Two-level Systems

[PDF] Ideal Gas

[PDF] Entropy of mixing & Gibbs Paradox

[PDF] Canonical Ensemble

[PDF] Gibbs Canonical Ensemble

[PDF] Grand Canonical Ensemble

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Chapter 3: Quantum Statistical Mechanics

[PDF] Photon gas, Vibrations of a solid & Ideal gas of real particles

[PDF] Fermi gas in a metal

[PDF] Classical limit of Quantum statistics

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Textbooks:

1) Statistical Physics of Particles by Mehran Kardar, Cambridge University Press, 2007
2) Lectures on Phase Transition and the Re-normalization Group by Nigel Goldenfeld
3) Introduction to Modern Statistical Mechanics by David Chandler, Oxford University Press, 1987

References:

1) Statistical Mechanics by Kerson Huang, Wiley, 1987
2) Statistical Mechanics by S. K. Ma, World Scientific Publishing Company, 1985
3) Fundamentals of Statistical and Thermal Physics by Frederick Reif, McGraw-Hill, 1965