Physics 7225
Statistical Mechanics
Spring 2023
J. A. Sauls

Reading:

  • 4/27/2023: Statistical Mechanics - Pathria & Beale, Ch. 12.9 - Landau Theory of Phase Transitions
  • 4/14/2023: Statistical Mechanics - Pathria & Beale, Ch. 11.1 - Interacting Bose systems: The method of quantized fields, Sections 11.1 (Second Quantization), 11.2 (Inhomogeneous BECs, Cold Atoms)
  • 4/05/2023: Statistical Mechanics - Pathria & Beale, Ch 8.2 (Pauli paramagnetism), 8.3 (Electron gas in Metals) and 8.4 Ultra-Cold Atomic Gases (Fermi), 8.5 Stability of White Dwarfs and 8.6 Thomas-Fermi theory of atoms.
  • 2/25/2023: Statistical Mechanics - Pathria & Beale, 8.1 - Thermodynamics of the Ideal Fermi Gas
  • 2/16/2023: Notes on Quantization of the Harmonic Oscillator
  • 2/16/2023: Statistical Mechanics - Pathria & Beale, 7.1 - Ideal Bose-Einstein Gas
  • 2/12/2023: Statistical Mechanics - Pathria & Beale, 7.2 - Black-body Radiation
  • 2/10/2023: Statistical Mechanics - Pathria & Beale, Ch. 3.7
  • 1/17/2023: Statistical Mechanics - Pathria & Beale, Ch. 1
  • 1/17/2023: Getting the Most out of Lecture Courses
    • Problems and Exercises:

  • 1/20/2023: Problem - Set 1 - Due 5pm January 28, 2023
    1. Solution - Problem 1.1
    2. Solution - Problem 1.2
  • 2/11/2023: Problem - Set 2 - Due 11:59 pm February 20, 2023
    1. Solution - Problem 2.1
    2. Solution - Problem 2.2
    3. Solution - Problem 2.3
  • 4/07/2023: Problem - Set 3 - Due 11:59 pm April 15, 2023
    1. Solutions to Set 3 are in the Lecture notes on thermodynamics of Bose and Fermi Gases
  • 5/03/2023: Problem - Set 4 - Due 11:59 pm May 12, 2023
    1. Solution to Set 4
  • 5/09/2023: Final Set - Due 11:59 pm May 9, 2023
    1. Solutions to the Final Set