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PHY 418: Statistical Mechanics I
Prof. S. Teitel stte@pas.rochester.edu ---- Spring 2013

January

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lecture 1

Postulates of classical thermodynamics, entropy, temperature, pressure, chemical potential

classes begin

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no lecture

MLK Day

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lecture 2

Conditions for thermal, mechanical and chemical equilibrium, concavity of the entropy, equations of state

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lecture 3

Euler relation, Gibbs-Duhem relation, entropy of the ideal gas, entropy maximum vs energy minimum principle, Legendre transformation

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lecture 4

Legendre transformations, Helmholtz and Gibbs free energies, enthalpy, the grand potential, reservoirs

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