PHYS 640

Equilibrium Statistical Physics.

Virginia Commonwealth University · UGRD · Fall 2026

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Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. Prerequisites: PHYS 571 and PHYS 580 . Fundamentals of equilibrium statistical physics. Topics include review of thermodynamics, canonical and grand canonical partition functions, mean-field theories, Ising and Bragg-Williams models, Landau theory, fluctuations about the mean field, critical phenomena, exact solution to the one-dimensional Ising model, two-dimensional Ising model and the renormalization group.

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Class #virginia_commonwealth-3632Fall 2026UGRD3 credits

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