Review of Statistical Mechanics

30 Jun 2011 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska

This set of handwritten notes is part of the semiconductor transport class. It deals with the derivations of semiconductor statistics for bosons and fermions. It follows the approach of McKelvey.

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Fun in the Sand: Some Experiments in Granular Physics

25 Oct 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Peter E. Schiffer

In the last two decades, condensed matter physicists have begun an intense study of the dynamic and static properties of granular media (materials made from individual acroscopic solid grains). These …

https://nanohub.org/resources/8491

Statistical Mechanics

20 Jul 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska, David K. Ferry

This set of slides describes the derivation of Fermi-Dirac, Maxwell-Boltzmann and Bose-Einstein statistics.

https://nanohub.org/resources/9381

ABACUS Exercise: Carrier Statistics

20 Jul 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska

The objective of this exercise is to derive Bose-Einstein and Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics.

https://nanohub.org/resources/9370