8.334 Statistical Mechanics II: Statistical Mechanics of Fields, Spring 2004

8.334 Statistical Mechanics II: Statistical Mechanics of Fields, Spring 2004

A two-semester course on statistical mechanics. Basic principles are examined in 8.333: the laws of thermodynamics and the concepts of temperature, work, heat, and entropy. Postulates of classical statistical mechanics, microcanonical, canonical, and grand canonical distributions; applications to la...

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Main Author: Kardar, Mehran
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Learning Object
Language:en-US
Published: 2004
Subjects:
the hydrodynamic limit and classical field theories
The renormalization approach to collective phenomena
Dynamic critical behavior
Random systems
Phase transitions and broken symmetries: universality, correlation functions, and scaling theory
Statistical mechanics
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/45586

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