- 04/17: Final Exam Date and Time
The final exam will be on Wednesday, May 6th at 8:00 am. (I have chosen the date
and time set by the University final exam schedule for courses with
MWF
10:00
a.m. classes, as opposed to 8:00 a.m. classes as originally scheduled for this
course.)
- 04/17: Makeup Class and Test 2
The makeup lecture that we were going to have today will have to be
on Friday, May 1st, the last day of classes for the semester. Test
2, as announced in
class, will be on Friday, April 24th. The test will be on the examples
of non-interacting systems we covered (11–14: fermions, photons, molecules,
phonons), non-ideal gases (15–16), and phases in thermodynamics (17).
I will expect you to be familiar with the material covered in the lecture
notes, and to be able to solve short problems based on the same material.
This
does not mean remembering all the equations, but you should know the general
statistical
mechanics relationships and the Hamiltonians used as starting points for
the derivations. You are not responsible for knowing material in the suggested
references that we did not cover in class, but reading those is likely
to help you.
- 03/23: Assignment 4
Three problems on quantum statistics,
fermions and
the
photon
gas.
Due
Monday, March 30, by 5 pm CDT.
- 02/16: Assignment 3
Plischke and Bergersen, Chapter 1, Problems 3, 4, 7, and 11.
Due Monday, February
23, by 5 pm CST.
- 02/09: Makeup Class and Test 1
As discussed today in class, we will have one more lecture on Friday the 20th
to make up for the delays we had due to technical difficulties with the teleconferencing. Test
1 will then be on Friday the 27th.
- 02/09: Assignment 2
Plischke and Bergersen, Chapter 2, Problems 4, 5, and 6.
Due Wednesday, February
18, by 5 pm CST.
- 02/02: Assignment 1
Plischke and Bergersen, Chapter 2, Problems 1, 2, and 3 (on equilibrium
distribution functions). Due Friday, February 13, by 5 pm CST (note
new date).
- 02/02: Submitting Homework Assignments
As mentioned in class, the suggested way to submit a homework assignment is to
write your assignment on paper, then go to the Lewis Hall mail room, scan the
pages into a PDF file,
and send them to one of my email addresses (either the
one at the bottom of this page, or the physics mail server one). Other ways
of sending me the assignment as a computer file are acceptable as well.
- 02/02: Class
I was not able to start the WebEx meeting I had scheduled for today,
because of a software problem. This problem will not stop us from meeting
again, because I have now found out from the WebEx customer support
what to do if
it happens again.
- 01/30: Class
I have to cancel today's class. We will make it up as soon as possible.
- 01/23: Class Schedule
Starting with the week of January
26th, we will meet twice a week. The first two meetings will be
Wed, Jan. 28th and Fri, Jan. 30th, 10:00–11:15 am. From February
onwards, we will meet MW 10:00–11:15.
- 01/23: Teleconferencing
Starting with the week of
January 26th, I will be away and the classes with be held remotely,
using internet teleconferencing.
- 01/22: Class Location
Starting tomorrow, Friday January 23rd, the
class will meet in Lewis 228, the conference floor on the second floor,
directly above the currently scheduled room 126.
- 01/21: Class Schedule
As discussed today during the first class meeting, we will probably
change the class schedule for this course
from the current MWF
8:00–8:50 to two weekly meetings, possibly MW 8:00–9:15. We will
talk about it again during Friday's class
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