PHYS 504 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Schedule

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Week	Date	Lecture	Homework 1-hour Paper Review
1	Wed 01/22	lecture1 L1. Introduction
2	Mon 01/27	lecture2 L2. Equilibrium and entropy
	Wed 01/29	lecture3 L3. 2nd law of thermodynamics	HW 1
3	Mon 02/03	lecture4 L4. Entropy of classical gas
	Wed 02/05	lecture5 L5. Black holes, statistical ensembles, and ergodicity	HW 1 due HW 2 Paper review 1 due
4	Mon 02/10	lecture6 L6. Liouville's theorem and ergodicity
	Wed 02/12	lecture7 L7. Information theory and statistical mechanics	HW 2 due HW 3
5	Mon 02/17	lecture8 L8. The canonical ensemble
	Wed 02/19	lecture9 L9. Grand canonical ensemble and the third law of thermodynamics	HW 3 due HW 4
6	Mon 02/24	lecture10 L10. General partition result, virial, and quantum statistics
	Wed 02/26	lecture11 L11. Quantum statistics and fermions	HW 4 due HW 5 Paper review 2 due
7	Mon 03/03	lecture12 L12. Quantum statistics and bosons
	Wed 03/05	lecture13 L13. Bose-Einstein condensation	HW 5 due HW 6
8	Mon 03/10	lecture14 L14. Density operators and statistical mechanics
	Wed 03/12	MIDTERM EXAM
03/16 - 03/23 - Spring Break
10	Mon 03/24	lecture15 L15. Mixed states and entanglement
	Wed 03/26	lecture16 L16. Foundations of statistical mechanics and entanglement	HW 6 due HW 7 Paper review 3 due
11	Mon 03/31	lecture17 L17. Interacting gases and the virial expansion
	Wed 04/02	lecture18 L18. Density operators, path integrals, van der Waals	HW 7 due HW 8
12	Mon 04/07	lecture19 L19.
	Wed 04/09	lecture20 L20.	HW 8 due HW 9
13	Mon 04/14	lecture21 L21.
	Wed 04/16	lecture22 L22.	HW 9 due HW 10 Paper review 4 due
14	Mon 04/21	lecture23 L23.
	Wed 04/23	lecture24 L24.	HW 10 due HW 11
15	Mon 04/28	lecture25 L25.
	Wed 04/30	lecture26 L26.	HW 11 due HW 12
16	Mon 05/05	lecture27 L27.
	Wed 05/07	lecture28 L28.	HW 12 due
	05/08	Reading Day
	05/09 - 05/13	FINAL EXAM	Final Exam