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Tuesday: 12pm-1pm, Room 1-E232
Wednesday: 12pm-1pm, Room 82D-101
Thursday A, B: 10am-12pm, Room 32-207
Consultation: Tuesdays 2:30pm - 4:30pm
1.2 Tentative schedule (subject to change)
Readings are from from the following main texts:
1. Daniel V. Schroeder, An introduction to thermal physics [Schroeder].
2. Charles Kittel and Herbert Kroemer, Thermal Physics [Kittel]
Advanced texts for quantum geeks:
1. Kerson Huang, Statistical Mechanics (Wiley, 1963).
2. L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshits, Quantum mechanics, 3rd edition (Pegamon, 1980) [LL-QM].
3. L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshits, Statistical Physics, 3rd edition (Pegamon, 1980).
| Week 1 |
Tue
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3 Mar |
Introduction; An overview of Thermal Physics
[Schroeder, pp. 1-20] |
Wed
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4 Mar
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Multiplicity; States of model systems
[Schroeder, pp. 49-66, 68-74*] or [Kittel, pp. 5-26] |
Thu A
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5 Mar |
States of model systems; Problem Set 1
[Schroeder, pp. 49-66, 68-74*] or [Kittel, pp. 5-26] |
Thu B
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Problem Set 1 |
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| Week 2 |
| Tue |
10 Mar |
Micro-canonical ensemble; Fundamental assumption
[Schroeder, pp. 56-59, 74-94] or [Kittel, pp. 29-45] |
| Wed |
11 Mar |
Entropy; Temperature
[Schroeder, pp. 74-94] or [Kittel, pp. 29-45] |
| Thu A |
12 Mar |
Group problem 1 |
| Thu B |
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Problem Set 2 |
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| Week 3 |
| Tue |
17 Mar |
Laws of thermodynamics
[Kittel, pp. 45-52] or [Schroeder 17-20, 74-94] |
| Wed |
18 Mar |
Canonical ensemble; Boltzmann Factor; Partition Function
[Schroeder, pp. 220-229] or [Kittel, pp. 58-64]
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| Thu A |
19 Mar |
Group problem 2 |
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Problem set 3 |
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| Week 4 |
| Tue |
24 Mar |
Canonical ensemble (cont.); Free energy
[Schroeder, pp. 108-114, 149-152, 156-164] or [Kittel, pp. 64-72]
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| Wed |
25 Mar |
Ideal gas: a first look; Equipartition Theorem
[Schroeder, pp. 229-255] or [Kittel, pp. 72-81]
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| Thu A |
26 Mar |
Group problem 3 |
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Problem set 4 |
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Week 5
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| Tue |
31 Mar |
Grand-canonical ensemble; Chemical potential
[Schroeder, pp. 115-121, 257-261] or [Kittel, pp. 117-122, 131-140] |
| Wed |
1 Apr |
Revision
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| Thu A |
2 Apr |
Group problem 4 |
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Problem set 5 |
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Week 6
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| Tue |
7 Apr |
Identity of particles in Quantum Mechanics; Bosons and Fermions;
Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac distributions
[Schroeder, pp. 262-271,379-380] or [Kittel, pp. 151-161]
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| Wed |
8 Apr |
Quantum and classical regimes of an ideal gas; Grand canonical description of the ideal gas
[Schroeder, pp. 262-271,379-380] and [Kittel, pp. 160-166] |
| Thu A |
9 Apr |
Mid Semester Test 1 |
| Thu B |
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Feedback, Problem set 5 |
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Week 7
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| Tue |
21 Apr |
Feedback, Problem Set 5 |
| Wed |
22 Apr |
Spin quantum number; Quantum states and quantum density of states
[Schroeder, pp. 262-271,279-282] or [Kittel, pp. 181-188],
Problem set 6
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| Thu A |
23 Apr |
Group Problem 5 |
| Thu B |
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Problem Set 6 |
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Week 8
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| Tue |
28 Apr |
Fermi gases, Problem set 7
[Schroeder, pp.271-282] or [Kittel, pp. 183-189]
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29 Apr |
Fermi gases (cont.), Problem set 7; Major Assignment due
[Schroeder, pp.282-288] or [Kittel, pp. 189-199] |
| Thu A |
30 Apr |
Problem set 6 and 7 |
| Thu B |
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Problem set 6 and 7 |
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Week 9
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Tue
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5 May |
Bose gases; Problem set 8
[Schroeder, pp.315-326] or [Kittel, pp. 199-206] |
| Wed |
6 May |
Bose gases (cont.), Problem set 8
[Schroeder, pp.315-326] or [Kitel, pp. 202-210] |
| Thu A |
7 May |
Group problem 6, Group problem 7 |
| Thu B |
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Problem set 8 |
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Week 10
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| Tue |
12 May |
Planck distribution; Black-body radiation, Problem set 9
[Schroeder, pp.288-292] or [Kittel, pp. 89-94]
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| Wed |
13 May |
Black-body radiation (cont.), Problem set 9
[Schroeder, pp. 292-306] or [Kittel, pp. 94-98] |
| Thu A |
14 May |
Group problem 8 |
| Thu B |
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Problem set 9 |
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Week 11
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| Tue |
19 May |
Debye model of a solid, Problem set 10
[Schroeder, pp. 307-314] and [Kittel, pp. 102-110]
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20 May |
Revision
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| Thu A |
21 May |
Group problem 9 |
| Thu B |
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Problem set 10 |
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Week 12
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| Tue |
26 May |
Mid Semester Test 2
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| Wed |
27 May |
Video-seminar by Bill Phillips "Time, Einstein and the coldest stuff in the universe" |
| Thu A |
28 May |
Student Evaluation of Teaching (20 min),
Feedback on Midsemester Test 2 |
| Thu B |
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Problem set 10 |
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Week 13
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| Tue |
2 June |
The Ising model of a ferromagnet
[Schroeder, pp. 339-346] |
| Wed |
3 June |
Brownian motion or Superfluidity |
| Thu A |
4 June |
Revision |
| Thu B |
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Revision |
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