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Introduction To Statistical Mechanics

Prof. Girish S. Setlur · IIT Guwahati

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Lectures

Week 1: Entropy and Saddle point

  1. Lec 1: Prerequisites and Introduction Video
  2. Lec 2: Combinatorics and Entropy Video
  3. Lec 3: Method of steepest descent Video

Week 2 : Equations of state and Thermodynamic equilibrium

  1. Lec 4: Bose and Fermi gases Video
  2. Lec 5: Maxwell Boltzmann distribution Video
  3. Lec 6: Thermodynamic potentials Video

Week 3: Fluctuations and ensembles, Quantum gas equations of state

  1. Lec 7: Legendre transformation Video
  2. Lec 8: Specific heats of quantum gases Video
  3. Lec 9: Low and high temperature equations of state Video

Week 4: Degeneracy Pressure, Thermodynamics of Radiation and Black hole thermodynamics

  1. Lec 10: Chandrasekhar Limit Video
  2. Lec 11: Radiation thermodynamics Video
  3. Lec 12: Thermodyamics of black holes Video

Week 5: Non Ideal gas, Diamagnetism, Magnetism and Temperature

  1. Lec 13: Van der Waals fluid Video
  2. Lec 14: Landau Diamagnetism Video
  3. Lec 15: Relations between ensembles and Pauli paramagnetism Video
  4. Lec 16:- Ferromagnetism Video

Week 6: Ferromagnetism ,Ising Model and Specific Heat

  1. Lec 17:- Correlations and Mean Field Video
  2. Lec 18: Theories of Specific Heat of Solids Video
  3. Lec 19: Tutorial I Video

Week 7: Tutorials II,III,IV

  1. Lec 20:- Tutorial-II Video
  2. Lec 21:- Tutorial-III Video
  3. Lec 22:- Tutorial-IV Video

Week 8: Tutorial V, RG method in Ising model and Optional topics

  1. Lec 23:- Tutorial-V Video
  2. Lec 24:- RG method Ising model Video
  3. Lec 25:- Introduction to Second Quantisation: Harmonic Oscillator Video
  4. Lec 26:- Quantum Theory of EM Field- I Video
  5. Lec 27:- Quantum Theory of EM Field- II Video
  6. Lec 28:- Creation and Annihilation in Fock Space- I Video
  7. Lec 29:- Creation and Annihilation in Fock Space- II Video
  8. Lec 30:- Green functions in many particle systems Video
  9. Lec 31:- Second quantised hamiltonians Video
  10. Lec 32:- Current algebra Video

Live Session

  1. Live Session 15-10-2019 Video
  2. Live Session 17-09-2019 Video
  3. Live Session 20-02-2025 Video
  4. Live Session 18-03-2025 Video

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Credits and licence

Institution
IIT Guwahati
Department
Physics
Teacher
Prof. Girish S. Setlur
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Physics
Source
NPTEL
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