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Physics 418: Statistical Mechanics I
Prof. S. Teitel stte@pas.rochester.edu ----- Spring 2005
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lecture 14
chemical equilibrium, quantum ensembles
HW #3 due
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lecture 15
Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac statistics
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5
Spring Break
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Spring Break
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Spring Break
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Spring Break
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Spring Break
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Spring Break
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Spring Break
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Spring Break
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Spring Break
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lecture 16
2-body density matrix, partition function for non-interacting fermions and bosons
HW #4 due
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lecture 17
occupation numbers, the classical limit, harmonic ocillators and boson
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18
Midterm Exam 9:45-11:45 in B&L 407
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lecture 18
Debye theory for specific heat of solids, black body radiation
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lecture 19
ideal quantum gases, quantum correction to equation of state at low densities, degenerate Fermi gas at T=0
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lecture 20
Sommerfeld expansion for Fermi gas at finite low T, specific heat, Pauli paramagnetism
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lecture 21
Pauli paramagnetism continued, Bose-Einstein condensation in ideal bose gas
HW #5 due
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