Physics 219 Statistical Mechanics

Time and Place: Mondays and Wednesdays, 2:00-3:45, ISB 231.

Office hour: Mondays after class: 3:45-5:00 pm.

Makeup lectures: Provisionally arranged for Friday May 12 and 19, same room and time of day.

No lecture: May 8 (I'm away at a meeting) and May 29 (holiday).

Final exam: Monday June 12, ISB 165, 2:00-5:00 pm.

Table of contents:

Course Description
Homework:
Handouts:
- Paper with Onuttom Narayan which discusses free energies in the presence of electric and magnetic fields.
  Free energies in the presence of electric and magnetic fields
  Onuttom Narayan and A.P. Young
  Am. J. Phys. 73, 293 (2005), cond-mat/0408259
- Monte Carlo Simulations in Statistical Physics
- Coefficients in the series expansions
- Van Hove scattering formula
- Linear Response Theory (expanded compared with the version handed out in class).

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