Mod-01 Lec-01 Recapitulation of equilibrium statistical mechanics

[@alekseiegorov9857]

The best lecturer I've ever see! Thank you from Russia!

[@elamvaluthis7268]

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[@LetslearnwithAshu001]

Hello is professor V.Balkrishnan(IIT Madras)❤

[@nevertheless123]

Prof. Balakrishnan is one of the greatest physics lecturers in history. These recordings are a treasure.

[@abdullahfaraj9931]

the grestest physics teacher in our time :)

[@maujo2009]

NPTELHRD: We implore you to upload a course on QFT taught by Prof. Balakrishnan!

[@kevinlovephysics]

Yes! And maybe condensed matter field theory too!

[@vishnuteja7522]

Yes! It will be a great learning platform for generations to come..

[@movax20h]

These are absolutely amazing lectures! I do feel some derivations are a bit sketchy and not fully explained in some videos, but it is not horribly bad. If professor Balakrishnan, could make full courses on a thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, and maybe classical field theory, as a pre-course to this nonequlibrium statistical mechanics videos, it would be amazing full statistical mechanics course. And as a post-course a condensed matter field theory and QFT. Greetings from Switzerland.

[@vivekpanchal3338]

Agree with you brother, That one playlist on statistical mechanics is not complete course, if @nptel arrange it, it will be blessings for us.

[@kevinlovephysics]

So good! Strongly wish to watch courses on condensed matter field theory taught by Prof. Balakrishnan!

[@supern0is349]

this guy is such a great teacher

[@elamvaluthis7268]

Very very excellent lectures.

[@hemanthkotagiri8865]

Prof. V. Balakrishnan is the Indian Walter Lewin. Thank you so much!

[@sonjak8265]

Prof. V. Balakrishna is much better.

[@leandra3269]

@@sonjak8265 Deeply true, I have no difficults in understanding his lecture as undergrraduate though my maths sucks

[@bremswitten7672]

@@sonjak8265 I disagree, this is not an objective statement. Both of them have different audiences and different focus points in their teaching, Walter Lewin's lectures are freshman (1st-year undergrad, extension of JEE Physics) level, his focus is to teach elementary and basic principles of the physical world and he makes physics come to life by using countless demonstration often risking his own life (not literary since enough care and precaution is taken but still considering his age, it's pretty insane) if a student religiously masters his course, basics of physics will be drilled into them. Balakrishnan teaches a more mature audience, his focus lies on Mathematical formulation, and key subtleties and principles of Physics, he does a great job at that. A more mature, theoretical person, a 2nd or 3rd-year undergrad would prefer his lectures and not Lewins, cause those are elementary and basic.

[@ravithejakandalam449]

An absolute legend!

[@movax20h]

So, even in this picture I do have an issue with Omega. If we focus on positions and momentums of N particles, then Omega is infinite anyway, as there are no discrete amount of positions and momentums for any given particle. Some discrete-continues approximation in limit maybe would work, but that probably leads to some fancy renormalization techniques.

[@sowrabhsudevan9119]

You could just discretize the phase space volume. You can just count microstates in volume space as volume/a^3 where a is some arbitrarily small number. Finally what is relevant is not total Omega but derivatives of log of omega. The arbitrary "a" disappears in this differentiation. It is not required, but with hindsight from quantum mechanics argue that this discretization is justified by the fact that dx*dp is of the order of planck's length.

[@동형김-v2j]

I wonder if this book contains exercises

[@MohdSameer-rx9gj]

Will anyone please tell me for which course are these lectures?

[@raghulsankar1153]

non equillibrium statistical mechanics

[@manukumarsharma4160]

can anyone tell me ,what is the level of this course, I mean undergraduate or postgraduate ,or above these

[@VinayVaibhav]

postgraduate or above.....This course assumes at least two courses on statistical mechanics

[@priyankagoel2033]

Post graduation

[@wujiewang8781]

Anyone knows what book this lecture series is based on?

[@priyankagoel2033]

Patharia book

[@sidddddddddddddd]

There are several references to follow from: 1. V. Balakrishnan, Elements of Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics, Ane Books, Delhi & CRC Press, 2008.(Chapters 1-4, 6, 9, 11-13, 15-17.) 2. N. Goldenfeld, Lectures on Phase Transitions and the Renormalization Group, Levant Books, Kolkata, India, 2005. (Chapters 1, 5, 8.) 3. K. Huang, Statistical Mechanics, 2nd edition, Wiley, New York, 1987. (Chapters 3, 4, 16, 17.) 4. M. Kardar, Statistical Physics of Fields, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007. (Chapters 3, 4.) 5. R. Kubo, M. Toda and N. Hashitsume, Statistical Physics II: Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1985. (Chapters 1, 2, 4.) 6. L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz, Statistical Physics, Part 1, 3rd edition, Pergamon, New York, 1980. (Chapter 12.) 7. G. F. Mazenko, Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2006. (Chapters 1, 2, 7, 8.) 8. H. Risken, The Fokker-Planck Equation, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1996. (Chapters 2-4, 6.) 9. H. E. Stanley, Introduction to Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1989. (Chapters 1, 3, 5, 6, 10-12.)

[@pranayvenkatesh8815]

@@sidddddddddddddd Thank you very much

[@ivansukin721]

I would personally add S. Ma, Modern Theory of Critical Phenomena, Routledge, 2019 to this list.

[@SphereofTime]

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[@अज्ञातकीओर]

Thankyou so much sir........