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Statistical Physics II -- spring 2011
Xiao-Gang Wen
Lecture: Wed. Fri. 1:00-2:30 at room 26-328 by Xiao-Gang Wen
E-mail: wen(at)dao(dot)mit(dot)edu
Office Hour: Tue. 3:00-4:00pm
Office: 6C-317
Phone: 617-253-5016
Recitation: Mon. 1:00-2:00 at room 26-328 by Evangelos Sfakianakis
E-mail: esfaki(at)mit(dot)edu
Office Hour: Tue. 4:30-5:30pm
Office: 6-415A
Phone: 617-324-3150
Annoucement
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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
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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).
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On Friday 3/18, we will have a recitation
and on Monday 3/28, we will have a lecture.
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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
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Some
handouts
from Evangelos Sfakianakisa
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Prob. Set 1. Due Feb 9 in class.
solution
Reading: Huang Chaper 5, 12 (first ed.)
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Prob. Set 2. Due Feb 16 in class.
solution
Reading: Huang Chaper 6, 12 (first ed.)
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Prob. Set 3. Due Feb 23 in class.
solution
Reading: Huang Chaper 4, 14 (first ed.)
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Prob. Set 4. Due March 2 in class.
solution
Reading: Huang Chaper 13 (first ed.)
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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
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Prob. Set 5. Due March 16 in class.
solution
Reading: Huang Chaper 13 (first ed.), lecture note II
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Prob. Set 6. Due March 30 in class.
solution
Reading: Huang Chaper 10 (1st edition) , lecture note II
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Prob. Set 7. Due April 6 in class.
solution
Reading: Huang Chaper 11, 15, lecture note II
and "Interacting boson and quantum field theory"
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Prob. Set 8. Due April 13 in class.
solution
Reading: Huang Chaper 15, lecture note II, and "Interacting boson and quantum field theory"
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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)
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Prob. Set 9. Due April 20 in class.
solution
Reading: Huang Chaper 9, lecture note III.
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Prob. Set 10. Due April 27 in class.
solution
Reading: Huang Chaper 9,7, lecture note III.
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Prob. Set 11. Due May 6 (Friday) in class.
solution
Reading: Huang Chaper 5,7, lecture note III.
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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
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