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8.333 Statistical Mechanics I

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Prereq: 8.044 and 8.05
Units: 4-0-8
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Lecture: MW2.30-4 (4-163) Recitation: F2.30-4 (4-163) +final

First part of a two-subject sequence on statistical mechanics. Examines the laws of thermodynamics and the concepts of temperature, work, heat, and entropy. Postulates of classical statistical mechanics, microcanonical, canonical, and grand canonical distributions; applications to lattice vibrations, ideal gas, photon gas. Quantum statistical mechanics; Fermi and Bose systems. Interacting systems: cluster expansions, van der Waal's gas, and mean-field theory.
M. Kardar
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