Statistical Mechanics
P.G SYLLABI
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS, OSMANIA UNIVERSITY
M.Sc (Physics) and M.Sc (Applied Electronics)
II- Semester Syllabus w.e.f 2012 -2013 Under CBCS and Non CBCS
PAE 202 T
Paper II
Statistical Mechanics
UNIT I : (13 Hrs)
Relation between thermodynamics and statistical mechanics- Micro stages and
macro states of a system Phase space- Ensembles Mean values and
ensemble average Density distribution in phase space- Liouvilles theorem.
Apriori probability postulate Micro canonical, canonical and grand canonical
ensembles Quantization of phase space.
Entropy and Probability Equilibrium conditions:
Thermal, mechanical and concentration equilibrium. Entropy of a perfect gas using
micro canonical ensemble-Gibbs paradox-Sackur.-Tetrode equation.
UNIT II : (13 Hrs)
Maxwell Boltzmann statistics-Distribution law- Maxwell velocity distributionEquipartitiontheorem.Canonical ensemble- Partition function-Ideal gas, Grand
canonical ensemble-Partition function-Ideal gas.Quantum Statistical MechanicsPostulates- Indistinguishability-Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac statistics and
distribution laws.
Partition function and thermodynamic quantities-Transational, rotational and
vibrational partition functions - Specific heat of diatomic molecules.
UNIT III : (13 Hrs)
Ideal Bose-Einstein gas-Energy and pressure of the gas.Bose-Einstein
condensation-Liquid Helium-Two Fluid model-Phonons, rotons, super fluidity.
Ideal Fermi-Dirac gas Energy and pressure of the gas Electronic specific heat,
thermionic emission, white dwarfs.
UNIT IV : (13 Hrs)
Fluctuation-mean square deviation-Fluctuations in energy, volume and concentration
Brownian motion-Classification of phase transition-Phase transitions of first and
second kind: Ising model, Bragg-Williams approximation-One dimensional Ising
model a application to Ferro magnetic systems-Order-Disorder transition.
Reference Books. :
1. Statistical Mechanics by SatyaPrakash and JP Agarwal (Pragati Prakahan2002)
2. Statistical Mechanics by Gupta and Kumar (PragathiPrakahan -2002)
3. Statistical Mechanics by BK Agarwal and M Eisner (New Age Internaional)
4. Statistical Mechanics by RK Srivatava and J Ashok (Prentice Hall, India)
5. Introduction to phase transitions and critical Phenomena HE Stanley
(Clrendon Press, Oxford).
6. Heat and Thermodynamics by Zemansky (TMH).
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