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PHY 418: Statistical Mechanics I
Prof. S. Teitel stte@pas.rochester.edu ---- Spring 2020

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lecture canceled

classes begin

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MLK day, no classes

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lecture 1

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

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lecture 2

Conditions for thermal, 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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