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Statistical mechanics · Undergraduate · Physics

Topics

Ensembles and counting

  • Microstates, macrostates, and multiplicity
  • Boltzmann, Gibbs, and Shannon entropy links
  • Canonical, microcanonical, and grand canonical ensembles
  • Partition functions and thermodynamic potentials
  • Classical vs quantum statistics

Ideal systems

  • Classical ideal gas and equipartition
  • Quantum gases: Fermi–Dirac and Bose–Einstein
  • Blackbody radiation as photon gas
  • Phonon heat capacity (Debye model)
  • Two-level systems and paramagnetism

Interacting systems

  • Ising model and mean-field theory
  • Phase transitions and critical exponents (intro)
  • Classical fluids: virial expansion
  • Chemical equilibrium from partition functions
  • Fluctuation–dissipation preview

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