Instructor:Prof. Oskar Vafek

E-mail: vafek`at`magnet.fsu.edu

Phone: (850) 644-0848

 

PHY5246 Meeting Times:
Mon&Wed 8:45am-10:00am (HCB 314)

Jan 8, 2018--May 4, 2018

 

TA Office Hours: TBA

 

Instructor Office Hours:
Wed 10:20pm-noon (Keen 309)

and by appointment

Textbooks:
instructor`s notes and
M. Kardar, Statistical Physics of Particles

 

(useful reference texts)

L.D. Landau and E.M. Lifshitz, Statistical Physics

E. Fermi, Thermodynamics

E. Schrodinger, Statistical Thermodynamics

PHY 5524 Statistical Mechanics

Spring 2018

 

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Course Description

PHY5524 is a one semester graduate level course. Statistical basis of thermodynamics will be motivated by a short review of thermodynamics. Elements of ensemble theory and the role played by quantum statistics will be covered. Specific topics to be investigated will include, but are not limited to, ideal Bose systems, ideal Fermi systems, inter particle interactions and phase transitions