Physics 140B : Lecture Notes

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1
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2
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3

APPROACH TO EQUILIBRIUM

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4

STATISTICAL ENSEMBLES

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5 QUANTUM STATISTICS
01/15/26 @ 11:00
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1,2,3
6

INTERACTING SYSTEMS

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4,5
7

MEAN FIELD THEORY

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6,7,8
8

BOLTZMANN EQUATION

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9,10
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LECTURE
DATE
TOPIC (click for lecture "black boards")
No. 1
1/05
Grand canonical ensemble for quantum statistics
No. 2
1/07
Maxwell-Boltzmann limit, density of states
No. 3 1/9 Virial equation of state
No. 4 1/12 Photon statistics
No. 5 1/14 Blackbody radiation, Ideal Bose gas
No. 6 10/16 Bose-Einstein condensation
No. 7 1/21 Ideal Fermi gas
No. 8 10/23 Sommerfeld expansion