Group on Intelligent Design of Autonomous Materials
at HKUST
Statistical Mechanics I (Graduate Level)
Useful links:
Mehran Kardar, MIT: Statistical Mechanics I: Statistical Mechanics of Particles (MIT open course)
David Tong, U of Cambridge: Lectures on Statistical Physics
Michael Cross, Caltech: Statistical Physics (Physics 127a, b, c)
Phillip Duxbury, Michigan State: Statistical Mechanics (PHY831)
Sergei Lukyanov, Rutgers: Statistical Mechanics (Physics 611)
HUI Pak Ming, CUHK: Statistical Mechanics (PHYS4031)
Daniel Arovas, UCSD: Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (pdf)
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Covered topics:
Review of Thermodynamics
Useful mathematical tools - probability theory
Classical Statistical Mechanics - Ensemble theory
Quantum Statistical Mechanics - Density matrix
Phase transition topics
Interacting systems
Brownian motion and FokkerPlanck equation
Kinetic theory and Boltzmann equation
*Introduction to non-equilibrium thermodynamics
Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (Undergraduate level)
Textbook:
Daniel V. Schroeder, An introduction to Thermal Physics.
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Covered topics:
Heat, work, and the first law of thermodynamics
Multiplicity, entropy, and the second law of thermodynamics
Thermodynamic systems: Two-state paramagnets, Einstein solids, and the ideal gas.
Heat engine, refrigerator, Carnot cycle
Thermodynamic identity, thermodynamic potentials
Boltzmann statistics, equipartition theorem, and partition function
Distributions of Fermions and Bosons
Blackbody radiation
Debye Theory of solids
Bose-Einstein condensation
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