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

February

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

January | February | March | April | May

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
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3	4	5 Lecture 3 Legendre transform, free energies Callen Chpt. 5	6	7 Lecture 4 Minimization principles, 2nd derivates Callen Chpt. 6,7	8	9
10	11 Lecture 5 Make up: 12:30 BL 270 Stability, kinetic theory, ensembles, ergodic hypothesis Callen Chpt. 8, Pathria Chpt. 2	12 Lecture 6 Liouville's theorem, microcanonical ensemble and entropy Pathria Chpt. 2, 1	13	14 Lecture 7 Entropy of mixing, indistinguishable particles, canonical ensemble Pathria Chpt. 1,3	15	16
17	18 Lecture 8 Make up: 12:30 BL 270 Helmholtz free energy, equivalence of canonical and microcanonical ensembles, non-interacting particles Pathria Chpt. 3	19 Lecture 9 Virial and equipartition theorems, law of Dulong and Petit, Curie paramagnetism Pathria Chpt. 3 HW 1 due	20	21 Lecture 10 Entropy and information theory, grand canonical ensemble Plischke and Bergersen Chpt. 2E, Pathria Chpt. 4	22	23
24	25 Lecture 11 Make up: 12:30 BL 270 Grand potential and grand canonical ensemble, fluctuations, non-interacting particles, ideal gas Pathria Chpt. 4	26 Lecture 12 Quantum ensembles, density matrix, harmonic oscillator, Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein symmetries of many particle systems Pathria Chpt. 5	27	28 Lecture Canceled