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Statistical Physics II -- spring 2011

Xiao-Gang Wen

Annoucement

• Final exam will take place in Room 26-328 on Monday, May 16, 9:00AM-12:00NOON. It will be an open-book open-note test. It will cover the topics in the problem sets.
  Office hour:
  Xiao-Gang: Thur 2pm
  Evangelos: Thur: 4:30-5:30pm, Fri: 10-11am

• Quiz 2 will take place on April 15 (Friday) in class. It will be an open-book open-note test. It will cover the first 7 problem sets (mainly prob. sets 4-7).
• On Friday 3/18, we will have a recitation and on Monday 3/28, we will have a lecture.
• Quiz 1 will take place on March 4 (Friday) in class. It will cover the first 4 problem sets (but no grand canonical ensemble).

Class handouts
• Syllabus


• Note on microcanonical ensemble
• 8.08 lecture note I
• 8.08 lecture note II
• Interacting boson and quantum field theory
  The sections with * are more advanced and can be skipped. Chapter 4.2 is about interacting bosons.
• 8.08 lecture note III
• Some handouts from Evangelos Sfakianakisa


• Prob. Set 1. Due Feb 9 in class. solution
  Reading: Huang Chaper 5, 12 (first ed.)


• Prob. Set 2. Due Feb 16 in class. solution
  Reading: Huang Chaper 6, 12 (first ed.)


• Prob. Set 3. Due Feb 23 in class. solution
  Reading: Huang Chaper 4, 14 (first ed.)


• Prob. Set 4. Due March 2 in class. solution
  Reading: Huang Chaper 13 (first ed.)


• Practice problems for quiz 1: 6.6, 6.14, 12.4, 12.7, 14.1, 14.5 in Huang's book (first edition)
  and prob. sets 1,2,3,4


• Prob. Set 5. Due March 16 in class. solution
  Reading: Huang Chaper 13 (first ed.), lecture note II


• Prob. Set 6. Due March 30 in class. solution
  Reading: Huang Chaper 10 (1st edition) , lecture note II


• Prob. Set 7. Due April 6 in class. solution
  Reading: Huang Chaper 11, 15, lecture note II and "Interacting boson and quantum field theory"


• Prob. Set 8. Due April 13 in class. solution
  Reading: Huang Chaper 15, lecture note II, and "Interacting boson and quantum field theory"


• Practice problems for quiz 2:
  The problems in Prob. Set 4-7,
  8.1, 10.11, 11.5, 11.6, 13.2, 13.3 in Huang's book (first edition)


• Prob. Set 9. Due April 20 in class. solution
  Reading: Huang Chaper 9, lecture note III.


• Prob. Set 10. Due April 27 in class. solution
  Reading: Huang Chaper 9,7, lecture note III.


• Prob. Set 11. Due May 6 (Friday) in class. solution
  Reading: Huang Chaper 5,7, lecture note III.


• Practice problems for the final:
  All the prob. sets,
  Prob. in Huang's book (first edition): 5.9, 8.4-8.8, 10.11, 11.5, 11.8, 12.2, 13.7, 14.7
  or Prob. in Huang's book (second edition): 6.12, 6.14, 7.4, 7.7, 8.4, 14.4-14.8, 17.10, 18.8, 9.7