Course Syllabus

Physics 210B — Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics

Fall 2022

Course Description

Transport phenomena; kinetic theory and the Chapman-Enskog method; hydrodynamic theory; nonlinear effects and the mode coupling method. Stochastic processes; Langevin and Fokker-Planck equation; fluctuation-dissipation relation; multiplicative processes; dynamic field theory; Martin-Siggia-Rose formalism; dynamical scaling theory. Prerequisites: PHYS 210A.

 

Syllabus

Phys210B_Syllabus_F2022_r1.pdf

Topics

Phys210B_Topics_F2022.pdf 

Text and References

Phys210B_Texts-References_F2022.pdf