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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Microstructural Evolution of Materials: Statistical Mechanics

Massachusetts Institute of Technology via MITx Online

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Discover the principles of statistical mechanics that explain materials science phenomena.

Syllabus

  • Explain the entropy of a solid solution from a quantum mechanical perspective
  • Understand the trends in heat capacity of a monatomic gas and an atomic solid
  • Use the canonical distribution to explain both effect of gravitational force on the density of a gas and the origin of Curie’s law of paramagnetism.

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Juejun Hu and Jessica Sandland

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