Thermodynamics & Statistical Physics (II)
- Review of thermodynamics and prelude to statistical mechanics
- Ensemble theory: microcanonical, canonical, gandcanonical and generalized canonical ensembles
- Maximum probability distributions, Boltzmann statistics, Shanons information entropy
- Van der Waals mean field approximaion for classical gas, phase transitions and critical behavior, Ising model
- Bose and Fermi statistics
- Ideal Bose gas: photon gas, Bose Einstein condensation
- Ideal Fermi gas: electron gas, white dwarf and neutron star