Prerequisite: Phy.451

One 2-hr Examination Paper: Answer 3 out of 4 Questions.

Recapitulation of Concepts of The Partition Function. Application of Statistical Thermodynamics: Heat Capacities of Solids; The Debye Model- Phase Equilibria- Free-electron Model of Metals- Fermi-Dirac Distribution- Bose-Einstein Condensation- Systems With Variable Particle Numbers- The Grand Prtition Function. The Ensemble Method in Statistical Mechanics.