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Introduction to Statistical Mechanics [Introduction Video]

Lec 1: Prerequisites and Introduction

Lec 2: Combinatorics and Entropy

Lec 3: Method of steepest descent

Lec 4: Bose and Fermi gases

Lec 5: Maxwell Boltzmann distribution

Lec 6: Thermodynamic potentials

Lec 7: Legendre transformation

Lec 8: Specific heats of quantum gases

Lec 9: Low and high temperature equations of state

Lec 10: Chandrasekhar Limit

Lec 11: Radiation thermodynamics

Lec 12: Thermodyamics of black holes

Lec 13: Van der Waals fluid

Lec 14: Landau Diamagnetism

Lec 15: Relations between ensembles and Theory of Paramagnetism

Lec 16:- Ferromagnetism

Lec 17:- Correlations and Mean Field

Lec 18: Theories of Specific Heat of Solids

Lec 19: Tutorial I

Lec 20:- Tutorial-II

Lec 21:- Tutorial-III

Lec 22:- Tutorial-IV

Lec 23:- Tutorial-V

Lec 24:- RG method Ising model

Lec 25:- Introduction to Second Quantisation: Harmonic Oscillator

Lec 26:- Quantum Theory of EM Field- I

Lec 27:- Quantum Theory of EM Field- II

Lec 28:- Creation and Annihilation in Fock Space- I

Lec 29:- Creation and Annihilation in Fock Space- II

Lec 30:- Green functions in many particle systems

Lec 31:- Second quantised hamiltonians

Lec 32:- Current algebra

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COURSE OUTLINE: This is an introductory course in classical and quantum statistical mechanics which deals with the principle of ensembles, Classical, Fermi and Bose ideal gases, Pauli paramagnestim, Debye and Einstein’s theory of specific heat and the 1D Ising model. PRE-REQUISITES: Thermodynamics, Classical mechanics, Quantum mechanics INTENDED AUDIENCE: M.Sc and beginning PhD students and other interested individuals

Introduction to Statistical Mechanics

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