This is the second term in a two-semester course on statistical mechanics. Basic principles are examined in this class, such as the laws of thermodynamics and the concepts of temperature, work, heat, and entropy. Topics from modern statistical mechanics are also explored, including the hydrodynamic limit and classical field theories.
Statistical Mechanics is a probabilistic approach to equilibrium properties of large numbers of degrees of freedom. In this two-semester course, basic principles are examined. Topics include: Thermodynamics, probability theory, kinetic theory, classical statistical mechanics, interacting systems, quantum statistical mechanics, and identical particles.
I. Chio, and R. Roeder. (2019)cite arxiv:1904.02195Comment: To appear in Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré D. We have added considerably more background on activity currents and especially on the Dujardin-Favre classification of the passive locus. Exposition in the proof of the main theorem was improved. Comments welcome!.