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.
Taught by
Juejun Hu and Jessica Sandland