Classical Gases by David Tong by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
Chapter 2 of Statistical Physics by David Tong. Sections 2.1–2.2 give ideal classical partition functions; section 2.5 gives the density virial expansion and Mayer f-function. No separately contributed chapter author is established.
Quantum Gases by David Tong by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
Chapter 3 of Statistical Physics by David Tong. Section 3.5 gives Bose occupation and condensation, while sections 3.6.2–3.6.4 give the low-temperature Fermi gas and Sommerfeld expansion. The harmonic-trap state-counting integral in the solution is derived independently. No separately contributed chapter author is established.
Classical Thermodynamics by David Tong by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
Chapter 4 of Statistical Physics by David Tong. Section 4.4: reservoir constraints, Gibbs minimum, equations (4.173)–(4.175) and extensive free-energy relations. No separately contributed chapter author is established.
Phase Transitions by David Tong by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
Chapter 5 of Statistical Physics by David Tong. Sections 5.4.1–5.4.2: order-parameter free energy, symmetry, continuous and first-order Landau transitions. No separately contributed chapter author is established.
Kinetic Theory by David Tong by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
Author-hosted lecture notes on nonequilibrium statistical mechanics. The site records copyright 2012; no separate publication or revision date is assigned here. No separately contributed chapter author is established.
Stochastic Processes by David Tong by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
Chapter 3 of Kinetic Theory by David Tong. Sections 3.1–3.2, printed pages 53–64: Langevin dynamics, Einstein relation (3.12), Gaussian diffusion and the Fokker-Planck equation. Whole-work author credit applies. No separately contributed chapter author is established.
The cited version has explicit sections on disk structure and dispersal, condensation, radial drift, gravitational focusing, isolation and giant-planet formation. Version and section locators are specified when cited; later versions have different pagination.
The study models false positives and detection recovery to infer exoplanet occurrence rates. Section VI and Figure 7 discuss average numbers per star; these must not be confused with the fraction of stars hosting at least one planet. It is used as independent methodological evidence, not an unverified attribution of the exam's figure.
The independent 5–50-day survey uses injected transits to measure completeness and reports a flattened occurrence distribution below about two Earth radii. Its period selection differs from the exam's 85-day cut; it is not treated as the source of the printed histogram.
Icarus 131, 171–178. The primary abstract describes three-dimensional simulations that produce comparable-mass embryos amid smaller planetesimals, and reports orbital spacing typically about ten individual Hill radii.
Primary theoretical research. Submitted in 1997; published in the Astrophysical Journal in 1998, DOI doi.org/10.1086/305623. The abstract explicitly gives the Rayleigh-Jeans decrement as times relativistic corrections.
Astrophysical Journal 707, 916–920 (2009). Primary recalibration of FIRAS using WMAP and synthesis of temperature measurements. The abstract gives the literature-combined temperature K.
Sensitivity by Joan Wrobel by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
Ninth Synthesis Imaging Summer School, Socorro, 15–22 June 2004. Slides 5–12 and 19–20 define antenna gain, SEFD, real-component baseline noise and single-polarization synthesis-image sensitivity. Four PDF pages contain multiple numbered slides.

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