Week 03-04

General conditions of equilibrium. Partition Function: Partition Function, Relations of partition function with thermodynamical variables, examples (collection of simple harmonic oscillators, Half spin  paramagnet. Basic Principles of statistical Mechanics

Lesson Plan:

Lecture 01: General conditions of equilibrium. Partition Function

Lecture 02: Partition Function

Lecture 03: Relations of partition function with thermodynamical variables

Lecture 04: Half spin  paramagnet. Basic Principles of statistical Mechanics

Lecture 05: EXAMPLES AND EXERCISE - I

Lecture 06: EXAMPLES AND EXERCISE - II