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Physics 418: Statistical Mechanics I
Prof. S. Teitel stte@pas.rochester.edu ----- Spring 2004

February

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

January | February | March | April | May

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
1	2	3 lecture 6 kinetic theory, ensembles, Liouville's therem	4	5 lecture 7 microcanonical ensemble and entropy	6 lecture 8 BL 208 9:45am entropy of mixing, indistinguishable particles, canonical ensemble	7
8	9	10 lecture 9 equivalence of canonical and microcanonical ensembles Appendix entropy of ideal gas, average vs. most probably energy HW #1 due	11	12 lecture 10 virial and equipartition theorems, law of Dulong and Petit, Curie paramagnetism	13	14
15	16	17 lecture canceled	18	19 lecture canceled	20	21
22	23	24 lecture 11 entropy and information HW #2 due	25 Last day to drop course	26 lecture 12 grand canonical ensemble	27 lecture 13 grand canonical ensemble for non-interacting particles; quantum ensembles BL 372 9:45am	28
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