SM5 · Ideal quantum gases
A 24-module path through sm5 · ideal quantum gases, in study order from foundations to the frontier.
Modules
- Quantum Statistics of Ideal Gases: Occupation Numbers
- Degenerate Fermi Gas at Zero Temperature
- Fermi Energy, Momentum and Fermi Temperature
- Fermi Surface and Fermi Sphere
- Density of States for Free Particles
- Sommerfeld Expansion
- Electronic Heat Capacity of Metals
- Chemical Potential of a Fermi Gas vs Temperature
- Degeneracy Pressure of Fermions
- Bose-Einstein Condensation in the Ideal Gas
- Critical Temperature and Condensate Fraction
- Thermodynamics of the BEC Transition
- Photon Gas and Planck Radiation Law
- Stefan-Boltzmann Law and Radiation Pressure
- Debye Model of Phonons
- Debye Temperature and the T-cubed Law
- Einstein Model of Lattice Heat Capacity
- White Dwarf Stars and the Chandrasekhar Limit
- Neutron Stars and Nuclear Degeneracy
- Relativistic Degenerate Fermi Gas
- Pauli Paramagnetism
- Landau Diamagnetism and Landau Levels
- Equation of State of Ideal Quantum Gases
- Quantum Corrections to the Classical Ideal Gas