COURSE
OUTLINE-Physics 641, Spring 2006
Thursday
2:30-5:25pm @ Tier 107
Instructor Dr. Jeongwoo Lee (Tier 403, Ext. 2462, E-mail: leej@njit.edu)
Home Page http://web.njit.edu/~leejw/ph641.html
Office Hour 1:00-2:30pm, Monday
Text Book Statistical Thermodynamics, by McQuarrie, University Science Books
Reference Statistical Mechanics, by Kerson Huang, Second Edition, Wiley
Assignments Problems assigned for each week will be collected in the beginning of
following Thursday’s class
Exams Midterm: Thursday, 3/09/06, Final: TBD
Grading
Homework
(25%), Midterm (25%) and Final (50%).
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DATE |
TOPIC |
READ-ING |
HOMEWORK |
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1/19/06 |
Introduction |
Ch 1 |
1-15,
1-18, 1-22, 1-23, 1-24, 1-28, 1-29, 1-43, 1-44, 1-58 |
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1/26/06 |
The Canonical Ensemble |
Ch 2 |
2-2, 2-3, 2-6, 2-11, 2-13, 2-15 |
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2/02/06 |
Other Ensembles and Fluctuations |
Ch 3 |
3-3,
3-4, 3-10, 3-12, 3-15, 3-19 |
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2/09/06 |
Boltzman, Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein Statistics |
Ch 4 |
4-2,
4-5, 4-6, 4-12, 4-18, 4-21 |
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2/16/06 |
Ideal Monatomic Gas |
Ch 5 |
5-2, 5-3, 5-4, 5-7, 5-11, 5-13 |
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2/23/06 |
Ideal Diatomic Gas |
Ch 6 |
6-1,6-5,6-10,6-12, 6-15, 6-21 |
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3/02/06 |
Classical Statistical Mechanics, Polyatomic Gas |
Ch 7 Ch 8 |
7-5, 8-15 |
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3/09/06 |
Review Midterm |
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7-9, 7-13, 7-15, 7-16, 7-17, 7-26 |
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3/16/06 |
Spring Break |
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3/23/06 |
Quantum Statistics I |
Ch 10 |
10-2, 10-4, 10-6, 10-7, 10-18 |
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3/30/06 |
Quantum Statistics II |
Ch 10 |
10-23,10-25, 10-26, 10-27,10-29, 10-32 |
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4/06/06 |
Crystal I |
Ch 11 |
11-1, 11-2, 11-4, 11-8, 11-10, 11-13 |
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4/13/06 |
Crystal II |
Ch 11 |
11-14, 11-17, 11-19, 11-20, 11-23,
11-34 |
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4/20/06 |
Kinetic Theory |
Ch 18 |
TBD |
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4/27/06 |
Recitation and Review |
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5/4-10 |
Final Exam Period |
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