Recommended textbooks
Although these summaries do not correspond to the current lecture course, they may well still be helpful.
Plots showing the Bose-Einstein, Fermi-Dirac and Boltzmann distribution functions.
Heat capacity data: metal (potassium), helium, diamond and some more metals.
Extra-curricular material on the physics of identical particles.
Tables: Fermi temperature of various metals; masses and radii of some White Dwarf stars.
The derivation of the chemical potential and internal energy of a Fermi gas at low T.
Calculating the degeneracy pressure of a Fermi gas using the full relativistic dispersion relation.
Plot to illustrate how to chemical potential of a Bose gas increases as T decreases.
Snapshots of a Bose-Einstein Condensate and a little movie of rubidium condensation.
Plot showing the Planck distribution for black body radiation.
The Cosmic Microwave Background spectrum and the tiny fluctuations in it.
Some plots to illustrate the Dirac cones in graphene.
