Statistical Mechanics

Topics

• General philosophy of statistical mechanics (going from knowledge of individual
• Boltzmann statistics
• Fermi-Dirac statistics (for fermions)
• Bose-Einstein statistics (for bosons)
• Interfaces
• the tight-attachment model, the mobile-attachment model, and the in
• Quantum statistics
• low temperatures, electrons in metals, the classical limit, and
• Translation
• Equilibrium
• Kinetics
• Thermodynamics