Ph441 - lecture notes & copies
- Copy of the first 8 pages of a review
article on magnetization step spectroscopy
(the relevant material is Section IV, A)
- Handwritten notes for the June 06
class: Thermal radiation
-
Photoelectric effect (interpretation in terms of the theory of Fermi
gas of electrons in metals; June 04).
- Handwritten notes for the May 21 class:
Fermi gas of electrons in metals, continued.
- Handwritten notes for the May 18 class:
Density of states.
- Handwritten notes for the May 16 class:
Fermi gas of electrons.
- Handwritten notes for the May 11 & 14
classes:
Ideal gas again, Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics, on the grounds of
quantum statistics.
- Handwritten notes for the May 09 class:
Quantum statistic (Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein).
- Article about the "barometric equation".
- Handwritten notes for the May 04 and 07
classes: Open Systems: grand partition function.
- Handwritten notes for the May 02
class: Systems in diffusive contact, continued.
- Handwritten notes for the Apr. 30
class: Two systems in diffusive contact; the role of
chemical potential.
- Handwritten notes for the Apr. 27
class: Simple Ideal Gas in canonical formalism.
- Lagrange Multipliers, an example of using
(five pages from the A. Wassermann's text described below).
- Entropy -- an alternative formula
(handwritten notes), and
an alteranative approach to canonical thermodynamics: entropy maximizing
by means of Lagrangian multipliers (a copy of Chapter 8 from A.
Wassermann's
text used in the Ph441 Course until 2006).
- Handwritten notes for the Apr. 23
class: The Helmholtz Potential Minimum Principle
- Handwritten notes, used Apr. 20
class: Eintein Solid, paramagnet consisting of atoms with a
spin number S.
- Apr. 18 -- "factorization" of the partition
sum, some notes in addition to the copies of book pages.
- Copy from H. Callen's text, used
Apr. 16 and 18:
(Canonical formalism, "factorization", the relation between the
partition function
Z and
the Helmholtz free nenergy F).
- Handwritten notes for the Apr. 13
class.
- Handwritten notes for the Apr. 11
class.
- Copy from H. Callen's text
(microcanonical ensemble, examples, continued.).
- Copy from H. Callen's text
(microcanonical ensemble, examples).
- Copy from H. Callen's text (on
entropy).