Instructor:
Dmitry
Pushin
Time:
Monday
&
Wednesday
1:00
-
2:20pm
Location:
EIT
2053
Course
start
date:
Monday,
September
10,
2018
Course Content:
Statistical basis of thermodynamics; ensemble theory; quantum statistical mechanics; fluctuations, correlations and response; application to gases, liquids, solids; phase transitions
Required Text:
Statistical Physics of Particles by M. Kardar (https://www.amazon.ca/Statistical-Physics-Particles-Mehran-Kardar/dp/0521873428)
Recommended Text:
Statistical Mechanics by Pathria & Beale ISBN#0123821881 (Academic Press)
Statistical Mechanics by Huang, Kerson ISBN: 9780471815181 ( 2nd ed. Wiley 1987)
Statistical Mechanics by Landau & Lifshitz ISBN#9780750633727 (Butterworth & Heinemann)