A digitally modified image of a sand dune, which served as the inspiration for the cover of Prof. Kardar's textbook Statistical Physics of Particles. (Image by Mehran Kardar)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Mehran Kardar
MIT Course Number
8.333
As Taught In
Fall 2013
Level
Graduate
Course Description
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Course Description
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.
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