Basic Statistical Mechanics: Notes and problems from 2013 UofT PHY452H1S

By Mr Peeter Joot

This book is based on my lecture notes for the Winter 2013, University of Toronto Basic Statistical Mechanics course (PHY452H1S), taught by Prof. Arun Paramekanti.== Official course description: Classical and quantum statistical mechanics of noninteracting systems; the statistical basis of thermodynamics; ensembles, partition function; thermodynamic equilibrium; stability and fluctuations; formulation of quantum statistics; theory of simple gases; ideal Bose and Fermi systems.== This book contains: - Plain old lecture notes. These mirror what was covered in class, possibly augmented with additional details.- Personal notes exploring details that were not clear to me from the lectures, or from the texts associated with the lecture material.- Assigned problems. Like anything else take these as is. I may or may not have gone back and corrected errors, and did not see the graded versions of the last two problem sets.- Some worked problems attempted as course prep, for fun, or for test preparation, or post test reflection.- Links to Mathematica workbooks associated with these notes.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1798195194
• ISBN13: 9781798195192
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"