PHY203: Introduction to Statistical Mechanics

Class Meetings:

• Time: Monday and Wednesday 08:30 to 09:45
• Location: Physics 150 (old: 158)
• Website: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~bass/PHY203

Instructor: Steffen A. Bass

• Office: Physics 261D (old: 204D)
• Phone: 660-2479
• Email: bass@phy.duke.edu
• Office hours: Monday: 13:00 to 14:00 and Thursday 10:00 to 11:00, or by appointment

Teaching Assistant: Nicholas Early

• Office: (old: 250J)
• Phone: 660-2490
• Email: nje2@phy.duke.edu
• Office hours: Monday: 16:15 to 18:15 or by appointment

Literature:

• Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, 1st edition, by W. Greiner, L. Neise and H. Stoecker (Springer, New York, 1995)
• Statistical Mechanics, 2nd Edition, by R.K. Pathria (Butterworth and Heinemann).

• Statistical Physics, by Landau and Lifshitz (Butterworth and Heinemann)
• Statistical Physics by Reif
• Thermal Physics by Kittel and Kroemer