• Physics 551 (Fall 2003)
• Section: 73083
• Time: 3.40-4.55 TR
• Place: Phys 512
• Textbook: Davis Chandler, Introduction to Modern Statistical Mechanics
• Useful Manual: Matlab Guild (H&H), or others

                                                 Homework		
               8-21  Introduction                Hw1
        8-26   8-28  probability and statistics         
        9- 2   9- 9  chapter 1                   Hw1(due)	
        9-11   9-18  Chapter 2                   Hw2
        9-23   9-30  Chapter 3                   Hw2(due), Hw3, group1
       10 -2  10-16  Chapter 4                   Hw3(due), Hw4, group2
       10-21  10-30  Chapter 5                   Hw4(due), Hw5, group3
       11- 4  11- 6  Chapter 6                                  group4
       11- 6  11-11  Chapter 6,7                 Hw5(due)
       11-13         Chapter 7, review			
       11-18         open-book exam
       11-20  12 -2  individual presentations

1. data analysis
2. the laws of thermodynamics first law, second laws
3. kinetic theory of gas
4. stability and phase transitions
5. statistical mechanics, ensembles
6. non-interacting ideal gas, classical
7. fermi gas
8. Bose gas
9. surface
10. cooperative phenomena
11. phase-transition, Ising model
12. Monte Carlo
13. Fluid