Physics 140B : Lecture Notes

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2
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SUM #2 EX #2
3

APPROACH TO EQUILIBRIUM

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SUM #3 EX #3
4

STATISTICAL ENSEMBLES

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SUM #4 EX #4
5 QUANTUM STATISTICS
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1,2,3
SUM #5 EX #5
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INTERACTING SYSTEMS

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4,5,6
SUM #6 EX #6
7

MEAN FIELD THEORY

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(82 pages pdf)
7,8,9,10
SUM #7 EX #7
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BOLTZMANN EQUATION

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SUM #8 EX #8
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Reading Assignments

WEEK SUBJECT LECTURE NOTES PATHRIA
1 quantum statistics, photon gas 5.2-6 ---
2 ideal Bose gas 5.7 7.1-6
3 ideal Fermi gas 5.8 8.1-6
4 Ising model, Mayer expansion 6.2-3 13.1-2, 10.1-7
5 physics of liquids 6.5 ---
6 Coulomb systems and plasmas 6.6 ---
7 vdW gas, fluids, magnets 7.2-3 12.1-8
8 mean field theory 7.4-5 ---
9 Landau theory of phase transitions 7.6 12.9
10 fluctuations and symmetries 7.7-9 ---