Instructors:
Professor Cecilia Clementi
Tutors:
Amir Abbasi
Krystof Kolar
Atharva Kelkar
EXAM DATES:
28.07.2022, 12:00-14:00: Lecture Hall 2 in Rost-und Silberlaube (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
06.10.2022, 12:00-14:00: Large Lecture Hall (Gr. HS, Arnimallee 14)
Lecture time:
Tuesday 10:00-12:00
Thursday 12:00-14:00
Lecture location:
Most of the lectures will be in person and will be held in 0.1.01 Lecture Hall B (Arnimallee 14)
However, some of the lectures will be online, and the link is given below.
List of dates of online lectures (all other lectures are in person):
May 3rd
May 5th
May 24th
May 31st
June 2nd
June 7th
June 9th
June 14th
June 16th
July 12th
Link to online lectures:
https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/99514422037?pwd=WkFxYVBpYUN2K1RyWVN3V2pQYWYvQT09
Course chat
The course chat is available here:
Borrow Kubo's book online
Link to legally borrow the book by Ryogo Kubo, "Statistical Mechanics, An Advanced Course with Problems and Solutions" to enrich problem-solving skills.
https://archive.org/details/statisticalmecha0000kubo_d3t4/page/58/mode/2up
Tutorial location and time:
All tutorials will be in person.
There are three available times for the tutorials and will be held in different rooms as follows:
Tuesday 12:00-14:00 --> 0.1.01 Lecture Hall B (Arnimallee 14)
Tuesday 4:00-6:00 p.m. --> Seminar room 1.4.03 (Arnimallee 14)
Friday 10:00-12:00 --> Seminar room 1.4.03 (Arnimallee 14)
The course will cover:
- equilibrium ensembles
- thermodynamics: thermodynamic potentials, laws of thermodynamics, thermodynamic cycles
- ideal quantum gases
- phase transitions
- interacting systems
- Introduction to non-equilibrium statistical mechanics
literature
- RK Pathria, Statistical Mechanics (Butterworth Heinemann 1996)
- F. Schwabl, Statistical Mechanics (2nd ed., Springer 2006)
- F. Reif, Fundamentals of statistical and thermal physics (McGraw-Hill 1965)
- W. Nolting, Basic Course Theoretical Physics 6: Statistical Physics (Springer 2005)
Lecture Schedule (tentative)
01. Tuesday, April 19
Introduction
02. Thursday, April 21
Probability and Statistics
03. Tuesday, April 26
Probability and Statistics
04. Thursday, April 28
Recap of Classical Mechanics
05.Tuesday, May 3
Microcanonical Ensemble
06. Thursday, May 5
Microcanonical Ensemble
07.Tuesday, May 10
Microcanonical Ensemble
08.Thursday, May 12
Canonical Ensemble
09.Tuesday, May 17
Canonical Ensemble
10. Thursday, May 19
Grand Canonical Ensemble
11.Tuesday, May 24
Grand Canonical Ensemble
12.Tuesday, May 31
Some applications
13.Thursday, June 2
ideal gas
14.Tuesday, June 7
Classical Thermodynamics
15.Thursday, June 9
Classical Thermodynamics
16. Tuesday, June 14
Classical Thermodynamics
17. Thursday, June 16
Classical Thermodynamics
18.Tuesday, June 21
Interacting Systems
19.Thursday, June 23
Interacting Systems
20. Tuesday, June 28
cluster expansion
21.Thursday, June 30
cluster expansion
22. Tuesday, July 5
Perturbation Theory
23. Thursday, July 7
Quantum Statistics
24. Tuesday, July 12
Quantum Statistics
25. Thursday, July 14
Bose-Einstein Systems
26. Tuesday, July 19
Fermi Dirac Systems
27. Thursday, July 21
Review - preparation for exam