PHYS4142 Statistical Physics Honours

Term 1, 2024

Recommended textbooks

• F. Mandl. Statistical physics. 2nd ed., Chichester West Sussex ; New York : Wiley, c1988. eBook is available online on the UNSW library website.

• L. D. Landau, E. M Lifshits. Statistical physics, 2d rev and enl ed., Oxford, New York, Pergamon Press, 1969.

• E.M. Lifshitz, L. P. Pitaevskii. Statistical Physics: Theory of the Condensed State, part 2. Butterworth-Heinemann, revised edition, 1980. (ISBN-13: 978-0750626361)

Teaching materials

Topics of Honours Statistical Physics

PHYS4142 Lecture Notes, Part 1

PHYS4142 Lecture Notes, Part 2 

PHYS4142 Lecture Notes, Part 3

PHYS4142 Lecture Notes, Part 4

PHYS4142 Lecture Notes, Part 5

PHYS4142 Assignment (2024)

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