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2019-2020 SDSM&T Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

NANO 743 Statistical Mechanics

Credits: (3-0) 3

Review fundamentals of thermodynamics, introduce Legendre transforms and develop the concepts of phase equilibria and stability, ensembles, partition functions, and the role of fluctuations. Statistical mechanics of non-interacting ideal systems and phase transformations, mean field theory, renormalization group theory and Monte Carlo calculations applied to the Ising Model.

Notes: This course is cross listed with PHYS 743 .


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