# Introduction To Statistical Mechanics

- Institution: IIT Guwahati
- Department: Physics
- Teacher: Prof. Girish S. Setlur
- Level: Undergraduate
- Language: English
- Subjects: Physics
- Source: [NPTEL](https://nptel.ac.in/courses/115103113)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-SA](https://nptel.ac.in/faq) (Non-commercial use only.)
- Syllabus: [at the source](https://nptel.ac.in/courses/115103113)
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## Lectures

1. [Lec 1: Prerequisites and Introduction](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/115103113/62a345eddcf8) (Video)
2. [Lec 2: Combinatorics and Entropy](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/115103113/af203263a41b) (Video)
3. [Lec 3: Method of steepest descent](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/115103113/76b0400ba0e5) (Video)
4. [Lec 4: Bose and Fermi gases](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/115103113/8f1795ce0389) (Video)
5. [Lec 5: Maxwell Boltzmann distribution](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/115103113/57a1dd35470a) (Video)
6. [Lec 6: Thermodynamic potentials](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/115103113/0b9eeb651f73) (Video)
7. [Lec 7: Legendre transformation](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/115103113/4043e7e9c0d2) (Video)
8. [Lec 8: Specific heats of quantum gases](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/115103113/70710ea212af) (Video)
9. [Lec 9: Low and high temperature equations of state](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/115103113/bb1d156af746) (Video)
10. [Lec 10: Chandrasekhar Limit](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/115103113/90b4bccc185f) (Video)
11. [Lec 11: Radiation thermodynamics](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/115103113/b8a5200a6f32) (Video)
12. [Lec 12: Thermodyamics of black holes](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/115103113/8b8fa8360dad) (Video)
13. [Lec 13: Van der Waals fluid](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/115103113/9467569257ad) (Video)
14. [Lec 14: Landau Diamagnetism](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/115103113/800d7bc73c3b) (Video)
15. [Lec 15: Relations between ensembles and Pauli paramagnetism](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/115103113/31fb46c58c4e) (Video)
16. [Lec 16:- Ferromagnetism](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/115103113/c256e9f9de81) (Video)
17. [Lec 17:- Correlations and Mean Field](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/115103113/6661aeed2015) (Video)
18. [Lec 18: Theories of Specific Heat of Solids](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/115103113/bf126dd0f283) (Video)
19. [Lec 19: Tutorial I](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/115103113/8a56af1e8980) (Video)
20. [Lec 20:- Tutorial-II](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/115103113/0a3d6fa60605) (Video)
21. [Lec 21:- Tutorial-III](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/115103113/deef9681fc68) (Video)
22. [Lec 22:- Tutorial-IV](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/115103113/7f72d0d57c71) (Video)
23. [Lec 23:- Tutorial-V](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/115103113/08503288ba64) (Video)
24. [Lec 24:- RG method Ising model](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/115103113/6de9e978488d) (Video)
25. [Lec 25:- Introduction to Second Quantisation: Harmonic Oscillator](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/115103113/eeaa63964944) (Video)
26. [Lec 26:- Quantum Theory of EM Field- I](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/115103113/b6aad8f846f4) (Video)
27. [Lec 27:- Quantum Theory of EM Field- II](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/115103113/c6c234f34fe1) (Video)
28. [Lec 28:- Creation and Annihilation in Fock Space- I](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/115103113/267b7728fd3f) (Video)
29. [Lec 29:- Creation and Annihilation in Fock Space- II](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/115103113/53b2043f1223) (Video)
30. [Lec 30:- Green functions in many particle systems](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/115103113/453b931741cc) (Video)
31. [Lec 31:- Second quantised hamiltonians](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/115103113/b2467b6c6dd2) (Video)
32. [Lec 32:- Current algebra](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/115103113/bb730b9a6a54) (Video)
33. [Live Session 15-10-2019](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/115103113/62a345eddcf8-2) (Video)
34. [Live Session 17-09-2019](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/115103113/af203263a41b-2) (Video)
35. [Live Session 20-02-2025](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/115103113/76b0400ba0e5-2) (Video)
36. [Live Session 18-03-2025](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/115103113/8f1795ce0389-2) (Video)