Prof. Girish S. Setlur

Courses

Here is a list of courses I have taught from 2004 onwards. They are taught to the students pursuing M.Sc in Physics, B.Tech in Engineering Physics as well as Ph.D (course work) in Physics in IIT Guwahati.

Earlier Courses

Classical Mechanics
Statistical Mechanics
Quantum Mechanics - I
Quantum Mechanics - II
Heat and Thermodynamics
Engineering Optics (B.Tech.)
Atomic and Nuclear Physics
Physics - I (B.Tech.)
Introduction to Quantum field theory
Physics of Carbon based materials
Engineering Optics

Current Course

NPTEL course - Introduction to statistical mechanics

Course syllabus: click here to download

Course URL: click here

Youtube links of lectures:

Lecture 0: Introduction video
Lecture 1: Prerequisites and Introduction
Lecture 2: Combinatorics and Entropy
Lecture 3: Methods of steepest descent
Lecture 4: Bose and Fermi gases
Lecture 5: Maxwell Boltzmann distribution
Lecture 6: Thermodynamic potentials
Lecture 7: Legendre transformation
Lecture 8: Specific heats of quantum gases
Lecture 9: Low and high temperatures equations of state
Lecture 10: Chandrasekhar Limit
Lecture 11: Radiation thermodynamics
Lecture 12: Thermodyamics of black holes
Lecture 13: Van der Waals fluid
Lecture 14: Landau Diamagnetism
Lecture 15: Relations between ensembles and Pauli paramagnetism
Lecture 16: Ferromagnetism

Youtube links of live Q&A sessions:

Session 1: click here to watch

Other Contributions

Panel member of NCERT committee for the revision of 10+2 syllabus, 2021.

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