Statistical Physics

Mon 1010 - 1100 (LH108)
Thu 1340 - 1530 (LH108)
Syllabus

In science one becomes enlightened not by discovering ways to believe things that make no sense
but by identifying things that one does not understand and doing experiments to clarify them.
--- R. B. Laughlin in "A Different Universe"

Week#HomeworkQuizRemarks
 
The reader who has read the book but cannot do the exercises has learned nothing. The best way to learn about the future of science, is to stay alive as long as you can and see what happens.
--- J.J. Sakurai     --- F. Dyson    




1Chap11: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Mar 08
2Chap11: 6, 8, 9 Mar 15 Appendix D: Various integrals
3Chap11: 10, 13, 14 Mar 22
4Chap11: 15, 17, 19 Mar 29 Appendix B: Stirling's approximation
5Chap12: 5, 7, 8, 9 Apr 12
6no assignment
7Chap12: 6, 11, 12 Apr 19
8Chap13: 1, 2, 3 Apr 26
9Chap13: 6, 9, 11, 12 waived
10Midterm Exam May 03
11Chap14: 1, 3, 6 May 17
12Chap14: 7
Chap15: 1, 2
May 24 Teaching evaluation
13Chap15: 4, 6, 7 May 31
14Chap16: 1, 2, 3 Jun 07 Quantum mechanics, the key to understanding magnetism
J.H. van Vleck
15Chap16: 6
Chap17: 1, 2
Jun 14 Negative Absolute Temperature for Motional Degrees of Freedom
16Chap17: 9, 10
Chap18: 7
Jun 21
17Chap18: 8, 9, 11, 13 waived Superfluid LHe II a, b, c
18 Final Exam Jun 25 1010 at LH108



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