| PHYS 552 - STATISTICAL MECHANICS |
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| Semester: | Fall 2007 | |||
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| Instructor: | Cemal Yalabik | |||
| Office: | Room SA-228 | |||
| Office Hours: | wednesday | 12:40 - 13:30 | Room SA-228 | |
| All other times | (if available - call 1316 to check) | Room EA-G11 | ||
| Assistant: | Sinem Binicioglu | Office: SA-239 | ||
| Homework: | Policy | Assignments | ||
| Exams & Grading: | (You can prepare notes on a single sheet of paper to bring to the exam.) | |||
| First Exam | 25% | 10:40, October 23 | SA-Z19 | |
| Second Exam | 25% | 10:40, December 4 | SA-Z19 | |
| Final Exam | 35% | ? | ? | |
| Homework | 15% | |||
| Course Schedule: | ||||
| Tuesday | 10:40 - 12:30 | Room SA-Z19 | ||
| Friday | 10:40 - 11:40 | Room SA-Z19 | ||
| Textbook: | ||||
| Statistical Mechanics by K. Huang | ||||
Homework for this week: There will be weekly homework assignments in this course. Homework is due on the Tuesday of the following week at 10:45, in class, before class starts.
You can view your grades through the Student BAIS system. You are also encouraged to discuss course related matters in the "student-forum" for this course at the same address.
| Week | Subject | Exam | Distribution functions and their transformations Non-equilibrium processes Basic thermodynamics, the concept of entropy The H-function#1 | Introductory transport theory#2
The Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein distributions
The Wigner function (No classes on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday) Applications: The Ising model (Friday class only) Applications: The Ising model | |
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