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8.08 Statistical Physics II
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Prereq: 8.044 and 8.05
Units: 4-0-8
Lecture: WF1-2.30 (VIRTUAL) Recitation: M1 (VIRTUAL) +final
Probability distributions for classical and quantum systems. Microcanonical, canonical, and grand canonical partition-functions and associated thermodynamic potentials. Conditions of thermodynamic equilibrium for homogenous and heterogenous systems. Applications: non-interacting Bose and Fermi gases; mean field theories for real gases, binary mixtures, magnetic systems, polymer solutions; phase and reaction equilibria, critical phenomena. Fluctuations, correlation functions and susceptibilities, and Kubo formulae. Evolution of distribution functions: Boltzmann and Smoluchowski equations.
X. Wen
Textbooks (Spring 2021)
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