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PHY 418: Statistical Mechanics I
Prof. S. Teitel stte@pas.rochester.edu ---- Spring 2012

January

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lecture 1

postulates of classical thermodynamics, entropy, pressure, chemical potential, condition for thermal equilibrium

classes begin

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lecture 2

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

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lecture 3

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

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lecture 4

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

make up lecture, starts 11 am

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lecture 5

Maxwell relations, response functions and relations between them

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