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Instructor: Andy Gavrin

Text: Fundamentals of Statistical and Thermal Physicsby F. Reif

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• The course syllabus and homework pages have been completed. All remaining homework assignments are available.
• Here are some possible paper topics for 517 students. If you have other topics that you would like to pursue, please check with me first.
  1. Fermi-Dirac statistics in neutron stars
  2. Thermodynamics of black holes
  3. Finite-size scaling
  4. Monte Carlo methods
  5. Entropy and information theory
  6. Landau-Ginsburg theory of superconductivity
  7. Bose-Einstein Condensates
  8. Boltzmann's H-Theorem
  9. Superfluidity of liquid helium
  10. Renormalization Group theory
  11. Elementary transport theory
  12. Thermodynamics of any real device: refrigerators, air conditioners, gas or diesel engines, power plants, etc.