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Physics 418: Statistical Mechanics I
Prof. S. Teitel stte@pas.rochester.edu ----- Spring 2005

February

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

January | February | March | April | May

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
		1 Lecture 5 response functions continued	2	3 Lecture 6 kinetic theory of the ideal gas, statistical ensembles and the ergodic hypothesis	4	5
6	7	8 Lecture 7 Liiouville's theorem, density of states HW #1 due	9	10 Lecture 8 number of states and the entropy, entropy of mixing, Gibbs' parodox	11 Lecture 9 indistinguishable particles, canonical ensemble Make up lecture, 9:45, BL 108A	12
13	14	15 Lecture 10 energy fluctuatons, equivalence of canonical and microcanonical ensembles	16	17 lecture canceled	18 HW #2 due at noon	19
20	21	22 Lecture 11 virial and equipartition theorems, Law of Dulong and Petit, Curie paramagnetism Lecture 12 - makeup lecture at 11am entropy and information theory	23	24 Lecture 13 grand canonical ensemble	25	26
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