PHYS 5310: Statistical Mechanics
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Thermodynamic properties of systems of many particles obeying Boltzmann, Fermi-Dirac, and Bose-Einstein statistics; microcanonical, canonical, and grand canonical ensembles and their application to physical problems; density matrices; introduction to phase transitions; renormalization group theory; kinetic theory and fluctuations. (Typically Offered: Spring)