Quantum statistical mechanics
Channel: Brant Carlson
Date: 2013-05-15

Assuming all configurations of a quantum system with a given total energy are equally likely, you can find the statistical properties of quantum mechanical systems.  This is a deep topic, and this lecture just scratches the surface, but the distribution of particle energies for distinguishable particles, fermions, and bosons are given, and the path to their derivation as the most probable state is described.  (This lecture is part of a series for a course based on Griffiths' Introduction to Quantum Mechanics.  The Full playlist is at http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65jGfVh1ilueHVVsuCxNXoxrLI3OZAPI.)