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:

https://meet.physik.fu-berlin.de/#/room/!UxLWecASXKEZuZktqf:physik.fu-berlin.de?via=physik.fu-berlin.de

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