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Physics 418: Statistical Mechanics I
Prof. S. Teitel stte@pas.rochester.edu ----- Spring 2006

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 lecture 5 reserviors, Maxwell relations, response functions	3	4
5	6	7 lecture 6 thermodynamic stability, kinetic theory, Maxwell velocity distribution, ergodic hypothesis	8	9 lecture 7 Liouville's theorem, microcanonical ensemble, density of states, entropy	10	11
12	13	14 lecture 8 entropy of mixing, Gibbs parodox, indistinguishable particles	15	16 lecture 9 canonical ensemble, energy fluctuations HW 1 due	17	18
19	20	21 lecture 10 equivalence of canonical and microcanonical ensembles, ideal gas, virial and equipartition theorems	22	23 lecture 11 law of Dulong and Petit, Curie law for paramagnetism, entropy and information	24	25
26	27	28 lecture 12 entropy and information HW 2 due