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|style="color:#000"|[[Image: | |style="color:#000"|[[Image:7623.jpg|left|400px]] This is the second core course in a sequence (PHYS 616 + PHYS 813) aimed to introduce physics graduate students to basic concepts and tools of statistical physics. Statistical physics is ''difficult to teach and learn'' due to: | ||
* students typically have had little experience making the connection between microscopic and macroscopic phenomena, | * students typically have had little experience making the connection between microscopic and macroscopic phenomena, | ||
* a deep understanding of the probability theory is important, | * a deep understanding of the probability theory is important, | ||
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* there are few exactly solvable problems. | * there are few exactly solvable problems. | ||
Thus, the course will focus | Thus, the course will focus on practical introduction of QSM by working many examples in the class drawn from its applications to condensed matter physics, phase transitions in magnetic systems, astrophysics, and plasma physics, as are the areas of relevance to research in DPA. | ||
areas of relevance to research in DPA | |||
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