2009 Spring : ESS 571300 Thermal and Statistical Physics III
　

Textbook : 

    1. McQuarrie, "Statistical Mechanics"   (Harper & Row, New York 1976; University Science Books 2000)

    2. Liboff, "Kinetic Theory", 3rd ed. (Springer 2003)

    3. Pathria, "Statistical Mechanics", 2nd ed. (Elsevier 2006)

    4. K. Huang, "Statistical Mechanics", 2nd ed. (Wiley 1987)                 

Instructor :  Pai-Yi Hsiao (蕭百沂)

                    pyhsiao(at)ess.nthu.edu.tw   Tel: 62247,  Office: ESS building 516

Teaching Assistants.:     Manh Ha Nguyen(阮孟河) (nmha(at)ess.nthu.edu.tw) Office: ESS R307 (Tel: 34265)

Syllabus:

Week 1--5 : Kinetic theory of gas and molecular collisions, continuum mechanics, Boltzmann equation, chapman-Enskog expansion, Lattice Boltzmann method.

Week 6--8 : Linear response theory, fluctuation dissipation theorem, transport coefficients.

Week 9--12: Magnetic phase transitions, Ising model, critical phenomena and related exponents, Landau's theory

Week 13--15: Kadanoff's renormalization group theory, scaling theory, finite-size scaling analysis