Lecture Notes on Thermal Physics and Statictical Mechanics (PHY306)

Spring 2005, Jacobus Verbaarschot

Notebook in pdf containing lecture notes of Chapters 1-3

Notebook in pdf containing lecture notes of Chapters 4-6

Notebook in pdf containing note of chapter 7

Notebook in pdf containing lecture notes of Chapters 8, 9, 10, 12 and 14

01-25-2005/L1, Multiplicity Function, Distribution of States, Microcanonical Ensemble

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01-27-2005/L2, Thermal Equilibrium, Entropy, Temperature, Boltzmann Factor

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02-1-2005/L3, Partition Function, Pressure, Thermodynamic Relations, Helmholtz Free Energy

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02-3-2005/L4, Ideal Gas, Equipartition, Mixing Entropy

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02-8-2005/L5, Planck's Law, Stefan-Boltzmann Law

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02-10-2005/L6, Kirchhoff Law, Electrical Noise, Nyquist Law

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02-15-2005/L7, Debije Theory, Greenhouse Effect

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02-17-2005/L8, Chemical Potential, Chemical Equilibrium

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02-22-2005/L9, Gibbs Free Energy, Grand Canonical Partition Function

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02-24-2005/L10, Fermi-Dirac Distribution, Bose Einstein Distribution

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03-01-2005/L11, Ideal Gas, Degenerate Fermi Gas

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03-03-2005/L12, Density of States, Small Temperature Expansion of Ideal Fermi Gas

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03-08-2005/L13, Specific Heat Fermi Gas, White Dwarfs, Nuclear Matter

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03-10-2005/L15, Midterm I Solutions

03-15-2005/L14, Bose Einstein Condensation

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03-17-2005/L16, Superfluidity

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03-29-2005/L17, Superfluidity of Liquid Helium, Carnot Inequality

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03-31-2005/L18, Refrigerators, Carnot Cycle, Enthalpy

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04-05-2005/L19, Enthalpy, Gibbs Free Energy, Coexistence Curve, Clausius-Clapeyron Relation

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04-07-2005/L20, Latent Heat, Van der Waals Equation of State

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04-12-2005/L21, Ferro-Magnetism, Landau Theory of Phase Transitions

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04-14-2005/L22, Midterm II Solutions

04-19-2005/L23, Kinetic Theory, Maxwell Distribution, Mean Free Path

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04-21-2005/L24, Diffusion, Thermal Conductivity, Viscosity, Detailed Balance

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04-26-2005/L25, Boltzmann Equation

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04-28-2005/L26, Expansion Refrigerator, Joule-Thomson Effect, Linde Cycle, Evaporative Cooling

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05-03-2005/L27, Helium Dilution Refrigerator, Nuclear Demagnetization

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05-03-2005/L28, Heat Equation, Diffusion Equation