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2014-2015 SDSM&T Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

PHYS 743 Statistical Mechanics

Credits: (3-0) 3

This is a one-semester course in classical and quantum statistical mechanics. Topics include ensembles, partition functions, identical particles, Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein statistics. Other topics will be chosen from mean field theory, phase transformations, renormalization group theory, Monte Carlo techniques, and other topics of interest.

Prerequisites: PHYS 443 (USD course) or equivalent.
Notes: This course is cross listed with NANO 743 .


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