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Physics 418: Statistical Mechanics I
Prof. S. Teitel stte@pas.rochester.edu ----- Spring 2002

April

(note: this calendar may be revised as the semester progresses)

January | February | March | April | May
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  1

Lecture 18

Make up:
12:30 BL 270

Pauli paramagnetism of an ideal fermi gas
Pathria Chpt. 8

2

Lecture 19

Landau diamagnetism of an ideal fermi gas
Pathria Chpt. 8, Landau & Lifshitz § 59

3 4

Lecture 20

Bose Einstein condensation
Pathria Chpt. 7

5 6
7 8 9

Lecture 21

Bose Einstein condensation - specific heat and entropy
Pathria Chpt. 7

10 11

Lecture 22

Superfluid 4He, BEC in trapped atomic gases, classical gas with internal degrees of freedom

12 13
14 15

Lecture 23

Make up:
12:30 BL 270

Classical non-ideal gas - the Mayer cluster expansion
Pathria Chpt. 9

16

Lecture 24

Virial expansion for the equation of state, van der Waals theory of the liquid-gas phase transition
Pathria Chpt. 9, 11

HW 4 due

17 18 19 20
21 22

Lecture 25

Make up:
12:30 BL 270

Liquid-gas phase transition continued - Maxwell construction and coexistence curve
Pathria Chpt. 11.2

23

Lecture 26

Liquid-gas phase transition continued - behavior near the critical point, critical exponents; Clausius-Clapeyron relation and Gibbs sum rule
Pathria Chpt. 11.2

HW 5 due

24 25

Lecture 27

The Ising model, magnetic ensembles, spontaneously broken symmetry, phase transitions and the thermodynamic limit
Pathria Chpt. 11

26 27
28 29 30

Lecture 28

The mean field solution of the Ising model and Landau's theory of 2nd order phase transitions
Pathria Chpt. 11 and Plischke and Bergersen Chpt. 3

HW 6 due

 


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