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|style="color:#000"|[[Image:7623.jpg|left|80px]] 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: | |style="color:#000"|[[Image:7623.jpg|left|80px]] 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 | * students 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, | ||
* the solution of a single equation or a set of equations such as Newton laws, Maxwell equations, or Schrodinger equation is not central to statistical physics, so that there are no standard procedures that work for a large class of problems and many calculations are unfamiliar to students, | * the solution of a single equation or a set of equations such as Newton laws, Maxwell equations, or Schrodinger equation is not central to statistical physics, so that there are no standard procedures that work for a large class of problems and many calculations are unfamiliar to students, |
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