| PHYS 334 - Statistical Physics |
| Semester: |
Spring 2002 |
| Instructor: |
Ceyhun Bulutay |
| Office: |
Room 220 |
Phone: 2511 |
| Office Hours: |
Tuesday 13:30-15:30 |
| Course Schedule: |
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Wednesday |
14:40 - 15:30 |
Room SAZ 02 |
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Friday |
13:40 - 15:30 |
Room SAZ 02 |
| Presentation Hour: |
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Monday |
17:30-18:30 |
Room SAZ-20 |
| Exams & Grading (Tentative): |
2 Midterms (15+20%) |
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1st Midterm |
Mar. 16 (Saturday) @ 10:40 |
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2nd Midterm |
Apr. 19 (Friday) @ 13:40 |
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Final Exam (25%) |
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Final Exam |
May 25 (Saturday) 09:00 (SAZ-19) |
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Homework (20%) |
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Presentation (20%) |
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| Make-up Exam
Policy: |
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As it is vulnerable to abuse, it has been difficult to identify
a genuine make-up examinee. Make-up exam will be after the final exam date,
and will be in oral.
The individual is expected to have reached a guru-level comprehension
by then. |
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| Textbook: |
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R. Baierlein, "Thermal Physics", (Cambridge University Press,
1st ed., 1999)
[library-reserve] |
| Supplementary: |
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F. Mandl, "Statistical Physics", (Wiley, 2nd ed., 1988) |
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F. Reif, "Fundamentals of Thermal and Statistical Physics",
(McGraw-Hill, 1965) |
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D.J. Amit and Y. Verbin, "Statistical Physics", (World Scientific,
1999) [library-reserve] |
Weekly
Calendar
| Week |
Subject |
HW/MT |
| #1 |
Feb. 8 |
Background & First Law of Thermodynamics (Ch. 1) |
| #2 |
Feb. 13 |
Second Law of Thermodynamics (Ch. 2) |
HW-1 |
| #3 |
Feb. 20 |
Second Law of Thermodynamics (cont'd) &
Holiday |
HW-2 |
| #4 |
Feb. 27 |
Entropy and Efficiency (Ch. 3) |
| #5 |
Mar. 6 |
Entropy in Quantum Theory (Ch. 4) |
HW-3 |
| #6 |
Mar. 13 |
The Canonical Probability Distribution (Ch. 5) |
MT-1 |
| #7 |
Mar. 20 |
The Canonical Probability Distribution (cont'd) |
HW-4 |
| #8 |
Mar. 27 |
Photons & Phonons (Ch. 6) |
| #9 |
Apr. 3 |
The Chemical Potential (Ch. 7) |
HW-5 |
| #10 |
Apr. 10 |
The Quantum Ideal Gas (Ch. 8) |
| #11 |
Apr. 17 |
Fermions & Bosons at Low Temperature (Ch. 9) |
MT-2 |
| #12 |
Apr. 24 |
Fermions & Bosons at Low Temperature (cont'd) |
HW-6 |
| #13 |
May 1 |
The Classical Limit (Ch. 13) |
| #14 |
May 8 |
The Free Energies (Ch. 10) |
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| #15 |
May 15 |
The Free Energies (Cont'd) |
HW-7 |