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

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lecture 15

The grand canonical partition function and the grand potential

HW #4 due

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lecture 16

Fluctuations in the grand canonical ensemble, non-interacting particles, chemical equilibrium

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spring break

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spring break

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lecture canceled

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lecture canceled

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MIDTERM EXAM, 10 am - noon in BL 269

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lecture 17

A gas in equilibrium with a surface of absorption sites, quantum statistical ensembles, density matrix operator

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lecture canceled

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lecture 18

Quantum microcanonical, canonical, and grand canonical ensembles, quantum harmonic osciallator at temperature T, Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac statistics, Pauli exlusion principle, occupation number representation

make-up lecture

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