Review of Thermodynamics
01.
Basic Laws. [Updated Mar 31, 2025]
02.
Thermodynamic Potentials. [Updated Jan 31, 2021]
03.
Second-Order Quantities and Useful Relationships. [Updated Apr 7, 2021]
04.
Important Examples of Thermodynamic Systems. [Updated Feb 27, 2021]
05.
Phase Equilibrium and Phase Transitions. [Updated Jan 31, 2021]
Basic Concepts of Statistical Mechanics
06.
Review of Probability and Statistics. [Updated Mar 16, 2025]
07.
Statistical Mechanics and the Distribution Function. [Updated Feb 1, 2021]
08.
Equilibrium Distribution Functions I: The Microcanonical Ensemble. [Updated Mar 17, 2025]
09.
Equilibrium Distribution Functions II: The Canonical Ensemble. [Updated Mar 17, 2025]
10.
Classical Monatomic Ideal Gas. [Updated Mar 24, 2025]
11. Paramagnetism and Other Simple Systems. [Updated Mar 24, 2025]
12.
Equilibrium Distribution Functions III: The Grand Canonical Ensemble. [Updated Mar 23, 2025]
13. Mixed
Quantum States and the Quantum Canonical Distribution. [Updated Mar 23, 2025]
14. Quantum
Statistics of Identical Particles and Fock Space. [Updated Mar 27, 2025]
Examples of Equilibrium Systems
15. Quantum Monatomic
Ideas Gas and the Classical Limit. [Updated Mar 30, 2025]
16. The
Free Quantum Molecular Gas. [Updated Mar 20, 2025]
17. Bosons 1: The
Free Boson Gas and Bose-Einstein Condensation. [Updated Apr 14, 2025]
18.
Bosons 2: The Photon Gas. [Updated Apr 2, 2025]
19.
Bosons 3: The Phonon Gas. [Updated Apr 14, 2025]
20.
Fermions. 1: The Free Fermion Gas and Electrons in Metals. [Updated Apr 21, 2025]
21.
Fermions. 2: Astrophysical Applications. [not covered yet]
22. Non-Ideal
Gases. 1: Two General Approaches. [Updated Apr 27, 2025]
23.
Non-Ideal Gases. 2: Two Examples and Cluster Expansion. [Updated Apr 27, 2025]
24.
Magnetism. 2: Diamagnetism. [not covered yet]
25.
Magnetism. 3: Mean-Field Ferromagnetism. [Updated Apr 30, 2025]
Phase Transitions and Renormalization, Non-Equilibrium Systems
26. The
1D Ising Model (Exact and Renormalization Group Approach). [Updated Apr 30, 2025]
27.
The 2D Ising Model (Renormalization Group Approach). [Updated Apr 27, 2014]
28.
Monte Carlo Simulations 1: The Method (+ Mathematica notebook).
[Updated May 1, 2018]
29.
Monte Carlo Simulations 2: 2D Ising Model (+ Mathematica notebook).
[Updated Apr 30, 2014]
30.
Critical Phenomena: Scaling and Universality. [Preliminary – Updated Feb 5, 2019]
31. Non-Equilibrium
Theory 1: Transport Phenomena. [not covered yet]
32. Non-Equilibrium
Theory 2: Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem. [not covered yet]
Additional Files
Index
[Updated Apr 22, 2020 – out of date]
List of Symbols [Updated Apr 11, 2021] |