This is a ‘selected topic’ course for advanced undergraduate students. It treats selected chapters from the book "The new Physics", edited by Paul Davies.

Lectures are given in part by Tjeerd Ketel, in part by me. This page is on my contribution only. Below the chapters that are treated by me are listed. By clicking on the links, pdf files are accessed which clarify and extend (!) the text in the book. These notes are structured as footnotes; presently the point to where they refer is available from me by photocopy only.

Chapter 8: Critical point phenomena: universal physics at large length scales

Chapter 9: Low temperature physics, superconductivity and superfluidity

Chapter 11: Physics of far-from-equilibrium systems and self-organisation