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Oct 31, 2024
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PHYS 6590 - Statistical Mechanics Review of thermodynamics, probability, and statistics. Statistical basis of thermodynamics, various ensembles, quantum statistics. Ideal Fermi and Bose gases and applications to solids and the black-body radiation. Interacting systems, phase transitions, and critical phenomena. Phase transition in the Van der Waals gas and in the Ising ferromagnet. Mean-field approximation and Landau theory of continuous phase transitions. Random walk, diffusion, Brownian motion, and Langevin equation. Stochastic processes.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: PHYS 6510.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Credit Hours: 4
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