Course Syllabus
The fundamentals of statistical mechanics developed and used to elucidate gas phase and condensed phase behavior, as well as to establish a microscopic derivation of the postulates of thermodynamics. Topics include ensembles; Fermi, Bose, and Boltzmann statistics; density matrices; mean field theories; phase transitions; chemical reaction dynamics; time correlation functions; Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulations.
Practice Midterm 1 (PDF), Practice Midterm 1 Solutions (PDF), (Alternate Solution to P5, PDF)
Practice Midterm 2 (PDF), Practice Midterm 2 Solutions (PDF)
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