Each of the eight main topics for this course cuts across several lecture sessions.
| TOPIC # | Topics |
|---|---|
| 1 |
Statistical Ensembles Microcanonical Ensemble Canonical Ensemble Grand Canonical Ensemble van der Waals Model and Phase Transitions |
| 2 |
Ising Model and Phase Transition Meanfield Theory and Second Order Phase Transition Symmetry Breaking and Phase Transition Symmetry Breaking and Ginsburg-Landau Theory Spins in Magnetic Field and First Order Phase Transition Water-vapor-ice Liquid Crystals |
| 3 |
Fluctuations Thermal Fluctuations Fluctuation-Response Relation Coherent Length and Local Fluctuations of Order Parameter |
| 4 |
Quantum Ideal Gas: Bose Gas and Bose Condensation Photon Gas and Black Body Radiation Phonon Gas and Thermal Properties of Solids Bose Condensation |
| 5 |
Interacting Bose Gas Wave Function of Condensed Bosons Gross-Pitaevsky Equation Ginsburg-Landau Theory for Superfluid Collective Excitation in Superfluids Superfluidity |
| 6 |
Quantum Ideal Gas: Fermi Gas Metal and Fermi Liquid Semiconductors White Dwarf and Neutron Stars |
| 7 |
Transport Hydrodynamics and Euler’s Equation Sound Waves Diffusion and Random Walks Damping of Sound Waves by Diffusion Viscosity and Navier-Stokes Equation Heat Conduction Transport in Metal and Drude Model Hall Effect Boltzmann Equation and Thermoelectric Effects |
| 8 |
Noises Fluctuation-Dissipation Relation Langevin Equation-Dynamics of Random Walks Power Spectrum and Noises Noises in RC Circuit |
