Boltzman:

Home

Contact
Info

Course
Info

Calendar

Homework

Lecture
Notes





 
 

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

March

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

January | February | March | April | May
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
  1

lecture 14

chemical equilibrium, quantum ensembles

HW #3 due

2 3

lecture 15

Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac statistics

4 5

Spring Break

6

Spring Break

7

Spring Break

8

Spring Break

9

Spring Break

10

Spring Break

11

Spring Break

12

Spring Break

13

Spring Break

14 15

lecture 16

2-body density matrix, partition function for non-interacting fermions and bosons

HW #4 due

16 17

lecture 17

occupation numbers, the classical limit, harmonic ocillators and boson

18

Midterm Exam 9:45-11:45 in B&L 407

19
20 21 22

lecture 18

Debye theory for specific heat of solids, black body radiation

23 24

lecture 19

ideal quantum gases, quantum correction to equation of state at low densities, degenerate Fermi gas at T=0

25 26
27 28 29

lecture 20

Sommerfeld expansion for Fermi gas at finite low T, specific heat, Pauli paramagnetism

30 31

lecture 21

Pauli paramagnetism continued, Bose-Einstein condensation in ideal bose gas

HW #5 due

 


Last update: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 at 10:57:51 AM.