Text Book:  Statistical Mechanics of Particles by Mehran Kardar, (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007)

Other Books:  Two standard graduate-level texts are:
Statistical Mechanics by K. Huang, 2nd Ed., (Wiley, 1987) and
Statistical Mechanics by R. K. Pathria, 2nd Ed., (Butterworth-Heinemann, 1996).

A modern book with lots of examples from diverse areas of science and engineering is:
Statistical Mechanics: Entropy, Order parameters and Complexity by J. P. Sethna (Oxford, 2007).

Thermal Physics by C. Kittel and H. Kroemer, 2nd Ed., (Freeman, 1980) is simpler than the other
books listed above, but is highly recommended for clarity.

Syllabus:
                    Review of Thermodynamics
                    Entropy
                    Ensembles: microcanonical, canonical & grand canonical
                    Free energies & Thermodynamic potentials
                    Ideal Gases: Classical, Fermi and Bose.

Course Grades:
                    Home Work:          30%
                    Mid-Term Exam:    30%
                    Final Exam:            40%

Exam Dates:
                    Mid Term: Tuesday, Feb 10 (in class)
                    Final Exam: Friday, Mar 13, 4:30 - 6:30 PM, Smith 1042 (Please Note!)

Grader:  Nicolas Bock (bock-garcia.1@osu.edu)

Course Information: CourseInfo.pdf  Syllabus, Text, Exam Schedule, etc.

Home Work:  completed HWs should be placed in the grader's mailbox in PRB by 5:00 PM

Problem Set #1: hw1.pdf  (due: Jan. 20)
Problem Set #2: hw2.pdf  (due: Jan. 27)
Problem Set #3: hw3.pdf  (due: Feb. 3)
Problem Set #4: hw4.pdf  (due: Feb. 17)
Problem Set #5: hw5.pdf  (due: Feb. 24) [typo corrected 2/18/09]
Problem Set #6: hw6.pdf  (due: Mar. 3)
Problem Set #7: hw7.pdf  (due: Mar. 10)

If you have any questions, please contact me:

Office: Physics Research     Building, Room 2024
Phone: 292 2457
Email: randeria@mps.ohio-state.edu