PHYS 506

STATISTICAL PHYSICS

The statistical basis for thermodynamics, Review of classical statistical mechanics, Postulates of quantum statistical mechanics, Micro canonical ensemble, Micro canonical ensemble, Ideal Bose gas, phonon gas, Ideal Fermi gas, Degeneracy pressure, interacting systems.
PHYS 507
Classical Electrodynamics
Introduction to Electrostatics, Boundary value problems in Electrostatics I&II, Magnetostatics, Faraday’s law, quasi static fields, Maxwell’s equations and macroscopic electromagnetism, conservation laws, Plane electromagnetic waves and waves propagation.