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| Time: | MWF 8:30 - 9:20 One class (March 25th) will be rescheduled due to a conference. |
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| Location: | 322 Jordan Hall | ||||||||||||
| Professor: | Dan Gezelter phone: 631-7595 office: 258 Stepan Chemistry e-mail: gezelter.1@nd.edu Office hours: By appointment |
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| Web page: | www.nd.edu/~gezelter/Teaching/60642 | ||||||||||||
| Texts: | Introduction to Modern Statistical
Mechanics, by David Chandler Statistical Mechanics, by Donald A. McQuarrie There is also a list of other helpful books for this class. |
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| Syllabus: | www.nd.edu/~gezelter/Teaching/60642/syllabus.html | ||||||||||||
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| Other: |
Statistical Mechanics deals with some intellectually
challenging material. The only way to learn the subject
is to actually do the problems on your own. Do not
use Google as your second brain. After you have
made an honest and painful individual
attempt at solving a problem, you may confer with
your classmates or with me. However, you must write
up the solutions to the problems on your own.
Solutions which are incorrect, but which have good
written explanations of why each step was carried
out, will be given higher scores than those which do
not. The take-home final must be done completely independently. The computational projects will require some amount of coding. ANY computer language may be used (including Matlab, Python, etc.) If you need access to a computer on which to do these projects, please let me know. These projects may be done in pairs. You may email me at any time with questions. |
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| Problem Sets: | I'll be posting the problem sets on the problem set web page each week. |