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PHY 418: Statistical Mechanics I
Prof. S. Teitel stte@pas.rochester.edu ---- Spring 2011

January

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lecture 1

postulates of classical thermodynamics

classes begin

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16 17

Martin Luther King Day, no classes

18 19

lecture 2

thermal, mechanical, and chemical equilibrium, concavity of the entropy, equations of state, Euler relation, Gibbs-Duhem relation

20 21

lecture 3

entropy of the ideal gas, entropy maximum vs energy minimum principle

1:00 pm in BL 270

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lecture 4

Legendre transformations, Helmholtz and Gibbs free energies, enthalpy, the grand potential, reservoirs, extremum principles for these new thermodynamic potentials

25 26

lecture 5

Maxwell relations, response functions, thermodynamic stability

supplement

heat engines, thermodynamic efficiency, Carnot cycle

27 28

deadline for spring registration

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lecture 6

Kinetic theory of ideal gas, ergodic hypothesis, statisitcal ensembles, density matrix, Liouville's theorem