PHY 4010U – Condensed Matter

This course focuses on expanding and applying the tools developed in PHY 3010U – Statistical Mechanics and includes macro and microstates, statistical weight, Maxwell-Boltzmann, Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein distributions, partition and grand partition functions; microcanonical, canonical and grand canonical ensembles. Additionally, more advanced topics such as Ising model of magnetism, phase transitions, statistical molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo methods are covered.
Formerly: Statistical Mechanics II
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): PHY 3010U