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Reference materials

7310 Course website (From Doc Rogachev's physics.utah page)
Kittel, Kroemer - Thermal Physics (the one in your ~/Downloads is better & searchable)
Sethna - Entropy, Order Parameters, and Complexity
Schroeder - Thermal Physics
Stowe - Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (undergrad book)

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Notes for my grad studies

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7310: Stat Mech

Hey welcome to my notes page for 7310 (Spring 2023)!Use the menu on the left to navigate

Jan 8, 2024

L03 Entropy, Temperature, Pressure, ChemPot.

Readings (reference material) Reading Kittel Chapter 2 Sethna Chapter 3 Notes Lecture 03 class notes 1st Law of Thermodynamics / The Thermodynamic Identity $dS = (\frac{\partial S}{\partial E}){VN} dE + (\frac{\partial S}{\partial V}){EN} dV + (\frac{\partial S}{\partial N})_{EV} dN$

Feb 15, 2023

L04 Canonical ensemble

Readings (reference material) Reading Kittel Ch. 3 Reading Sethna Ch 6.1, 6.2 Notes Lecture 03 class notes Ensembles A statistical ensemble is a collection of all accessible microstates of a system with associated probabilities. Canonical ensembles are the collection of possible states of a mechanical system in thermal equilibrium with a heat bath (or reservoir) at a fixed temperature T

Feb 13, 2023

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L03 Entropy, Temperature, Pressure, ChemPot.

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