NPTEL : NOC:Introduction to Statistical Mechanics (Physics)

Co-ordinators : Prof.Girish S. Setlur


Lecture 1 - Prerequisites and Introduction

Lecture 2 - Combinatorics and Entropy

Lecture 3 - Method of steepest descent

Lecture 4 - Bose and Fermi gases

Lecture 5 - Maxwell Boltzmann distribution

Lecture 6 - Thermodynamic potentials

Lecture 7 - Legendre transformation

Lecture 8 - Specific heats of quantum gases

Lecture 9 - Low and high temperature equations of state

Lecture 10 - Chandrasekhar Limit

Lecture 11 - Radiation thermodynamics

Lecture 12 - Thermodyamics of black holes

Lecture 13 - Van der Waals fluid

Lecture 14 - Landau Diamagnetism

Lecture 15 - Relations between ensembles and Pauli paramagnetism

Lecture 16 - Ferromagnetism

Lecture 17 - Correlations and Mean Field

Lecture 18 - Theories of Specific Heat of Solids

Lecture 19 - Tutorial - I

Lecture 20 - Tutorial - II

Lecture 21 - Tutorial - III

Lecture 22 - Tutorial - IV

Lecture 23 - Tutorial - V

Lecture 24 - RG method Ising model

Lecture 25 - Introduction to Second Quantisation: Harmonic Oscillator

Lecture 26 - Quantum Theory of EM Field - I

Lecture 27 - Quantum Theory of EM Field - II

Lecture 28 - Creation and Annihilation in Fock Space - I

Lecture 29 - Creation and Annihilation in Fock Space - II

Lecture 30 - Green functions in many particle systems

Lecture 31 - Second quantised hamiltonians

Lecture 32 - Current algebra