All chapters are copyrighted by Bill Klein, Harvey Gould, and Jan Tobochnik. They are not to be copied or distributed without contacting one of the authors.

The notes are based on lectures by Bill Klein for Physics 747, Advanced Statistical Mechanics, Thursdays, 2 - 5 pm. Additional notes will be posted throught out the Fall 2012 semester. It is hoped that the notes will become the basis of a monograph on the Kinetics of Phase Transitions.

• Chapter 1, "Phenomenological Theories of Nucleation." Updated 1 October 2012.
• Chapter 2, "Linear Theory of Evolution to an Unstable State." Updated 1 October 2012.
• Chapter 3, "Becker-Doring Theory and the Droplet Model." Updated 1 October 2012.
• Chapter 4, "The Landau-Ginzburg Free Energy as a Hamiltonian." Updated 1 October 2012.
• Chapter 5, "Nucleation Near Coexistence." Updated 29 October 2012.
• Chapter 6, "Clusters and Percolation." Updated 5 November 2012.
• Chapter 7, "Percolation and the Potts Model." Updated 5 November 2012.
• Chapter 8, "Nucleation Near the Spinodal." Updated 15 November 2012.

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