Pensum/Curriculum Fys3130 2007
The textbook used is
Introduction to Modern Statistical Mechanics By D. Chandler
The curriculum is what has been lectured and discussed in colloquia.
Chapter
1
2
3
4
5
5
6
8
8
Lecture Notes
Section
1.1—1.8
2.1—2.4
3.1—3.7
4.1—4.7
5.1—5.4
5.6—5.7
6.1—6.2
8.1—8.3
8.5—8.7
Pages
3—27
28—53
54—85
86—105
119—135
139—149
159--168
234—244
252—260
Thermodynamics
Equilibrium & Stability
Statistical Mechanics
Ideal Systems
Phase Transitions
R&G for Ising model
Monte Carlo
Non-equilibrium
Fluctuation-Dissipation
Fokker-Planck.pdf
We have placed additional information on the course site:
• Entropy
o Shannon_entropy.pdf
o Entropy_in_thermodynamics_and_info.pdf
o Bennet_Landauer2003.pdf
o Landauer1961.pdf
• LectureNotes
o Fokker-Planck.pdf
o YuriLectureNotesFys203.pdf (Yuri Galperin’s notes)
o YuriPotentials2005.pdf
(summary of Potentials by Galperin)
o Ravndal’s Compendium
• Legendre
o Legendre_transform.pdf
o LagrangeVariation.pdf
• ConjugateVariable
o ConjiugateVariablesThermodynamicsIUPAP.pdf
o Conjugate_variables_thermodynam.pdf
• Exams
o Here we have collected earlier exams (some with solutions) for this
course and for the old Fys203 course.
Problems for exams 1999—2005 that are not consistent with the present
curriculum are:2005-(1), 2003-(2),
Additional useful books are
Finn Ravndal’s lecture notes from FYS203
Reif’s Fundamentals of Statistical and Thermal Physics
D. Schroder’s Thermal Physics