NOC:Introduction to Statistical Mechanics (USB)

Media Storage Type : 32 GB USB Stick

NPTEL Subject Matter Expert : Prof.Girish S. Setlur

NPTEL Co-ordinating Institute : IIT Guwahati

NPTEL Lecture Count : 32

NPTEL Course Size : 14 GB

NPTEL PDF Text Transcription : Available and Included

NPTEL Subtitle Transcription : Available and Included (SRT)

Lecture Titles:

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