Statistical Mechanics : IUCAA-NCRA Graduate School
October - December : 2016


Course Contents :

  Special Emphasis : Astrophysical Applications


Grading :

  • class tests - 30% (24.10, 18.11)
  • assignment - 25% (2.11 -- 18.11)
  • course project - 45% (2.11 -- 2.12)



    Class Schedule : 10.10.16 - 02.12.16
    10.00 - 11.00, Lecture Hall, NCRA-TIFR
    Monday 10.10 17.10 24.10 31.10 07.11 14.11 21.11 28.11
    Wednesday 12.10 19.10 26.10 02.11 09.11 16.11 23.11 30.11
    Friday 14.10 21.10 28.10 04.11 11.11 18.11 25.11 02.12


    Project Presentation : 05.12.16
    10.00 - 1.00, Lecture Hall, NCRA-TIFR
    10.00 - 10.30 Ajay, Sorabh, Sunil, Vaishak Padmanabhan T., 2004, MPLA, 19, 2637
    10.30 - 11.00 Gitika, Pranoti, Sujatha, Yash Nagai D. et al., 2007, ApJ, 668, 1
    11.00 - 11.30 C-O-F-F-E-E/T-E-A     B-R-E-A-K
    11.30 - 12.00 Bhaskar, Debarshi, Soumak Preskill et al., 1991, MPLA, 6, 2353
    12.00 - 12.30 Barnali, Saheb Wald R. M., 2001, LRR, 4, 6
    12.30 - 1.00 Aditya, Atrideb, Minhajur Chavanis P. H., 2006, IJMPB, 20, 3113
    Report - 20, Presentation - 15, Answers - 7 , Questions - 3


    Contact :
    Instructor : Sushan Konar
    Ground Floor, East Campus, NCRA-TIFR
    Phone : 020-9271-9444
    e-mail : sushan@ncra.tifr.res.in
    Personal Contact Hour : 11.30am - 1.00pm, Wednesday

    TA : Prasanta Bera
    Room No. 115, IUCAA
    e-mail : pbera@iucaa.in


    Reference Texts :

    1. Statistical Physics I, Course of Theoretical Physics, V5
    2. Statistical Physics II, Course of Theoretical Physics, V9
      L. D. Landau & E. M. Lifshitz, Pergamon Press, 1980
    3. Statistical Mechanics
      R. K. Pathria, 1996, Elsevier
    4. Statistical Mechanics
      Kerson Huang, 1986, Wiley Eastern Limited
    5. An Introductory Course of Statistical Mechanics
    6. Statistical Mechanics
      J. K. Bhattacharjee, 1996, Allied Publishers Limited
    7. Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
      P. V. Panat, 2008, Narosa Publishers
    8. Superconductivity, Superfluids and Condensates
      James F. Annett, Oxford University Press, 2004