Lecture Notes
Lecture 18, May 31: Monte Carlo, renormalization group
Lecture 17, May 29: Correlations and exact solutions
Lecture 16, May 24: Landau theory of phase transition
Addition: page 7 (regarding $\alpha$, red), also a small typo correction in footnote of page 4. – 4:47PM, May 29, 2012
Change: page 12 (diagrams). – 10:57AM, May 25, 2012
Additions+: pages 8, 11, 12 (red). – 4:28PM, May 24, 2012
Lecture 15, May 22: BEC, Ising model, MFT
Lecture 14, May 17: Fermi gas and bose gas
Lecture 13, May 15: Quantum ideal gas and its classical limit
Lecture 12, May 10: Phonons and photons
Correction: page 7 (micro state symbols; red). – 7:53AM, May 13, 2012
Additions: pages 5-7 revamped (Debye phonons; no red colors). – 8:04PM, May 10, 2012
Lecture 11, May 8: Simple examples of quantum statistical mechanics
Change: $f_B$ or $n$ → $n_P$ in pages 3 and 4 (red). – 3:08PM, May 14, 2012
Additions: footnotes in pages 1 (Deutsch research) and 4 (Casimir force, van der Waals force). – 10:09AM, May 09, 2012
Lecture 10, May 3: Scattering, quantum
Lecture 9, May 1: Mayer cluster expansion
Lecture 8, Apr. 25: Perturbation theory
Correction: two typos on page 8 (red) – 1:22PM, May 08, 2012
Lecture 7, Apr. 23: Semi-classical statistical mechanics
Correction: page 11: sign correction for the last equation. – 3:51PM, May 09, 2012
Addition: page 8 (red) – 8:23PM, Apr 27, 2012
Lecture 6, Apr. 18: Kinetic theory of gases (cont.)
Correction: page 6: two places (red) 0 → 1. – 3:09PM, May 02, 2012
Addition: pages 3,12 (red) – 4:39PM, Apr 26, 2012
Lecture 5, Apr. 17: Kinetic theory of gases
Addition: page 3 (red) – 4:39PM, Apr 26, 2012
Lecture 4, Apr. 12: Probability (cont.)
Lecture 3, Apr. 10: Probability
Addition and correction: page 3, above (3.2), ", if necessary" added; last page, "coefficient" → "distribution" – 8:48AM, Apr 11, 2012
Addition: last page ("and $N \rightarrow \infty$") – 9:19PM, Apr 10, 2012
Lecture 2, Apr. 5: Thermodynamics (cont.)
One correction: Eq. 2.26, $\partial P \rightarrow \partial V$ (thanks, TK!) – 4:11PM, Apr 12, 2012
One correction: last page "??" → "2.42" – 11:14AM, Apr 10, 2012
Some corrections: page 8 (one red character) and page 10 (two red words) and some additions: many new materials from page 11 and forward (will cover in lecture 3) – 5:04PM, Apr 09, 2012
Lecture 1, Apr. 3: Thermodynamics
Correction: page 3 "= 0" → "= constant" – 4:25PM, Apr 11, 2012
Some additions: see red texts in pages 3 and 9 – 10:28AM, Apr 05, 2012
Correction: last page: sign correction for $\delta$ (red). – 1:19PM, Jun 09, 2012