| Date | Subject | Chapters in Reif's book | Chapters in Sethna's book |
| August 27 | Probabilities | ||
| August 30 |
Random Walk | 1.1-1.5 | 1 |
| September 1 |
Central Limit Theorem | 1.6-1.11 | |
| September 3 |
Microcanonical Ensemble | 2.1-2.4 | 3.1, 3.2 |
| September 6 |
Density Matrix | 6.1 |
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| September 8 |
Counting Microstates | 2.5 | 2.1-2.3 |
| September 10 | Interactions between Systems | 2.6-2.11 | |
| September 13 | Temperature and Entropy | 3.1-3.5 | 2.4, 4.1 |
| September 15 | Quasi Static Processes | 3.6-3.13 | |
| September 17 | Heat Capacity | 4.1-4.7 | |
| September 20 | Gibbs Paradox | 7.3, 7.4 | 4.2 |
| September 22 | Thermodynamics: Ideal Gas | 5.1-5.4 | |
| September 24 | Maxwell Relations | 5.5-5.8 | 5.1 |
| September 27 | Joule-Thomson Process | 5.9-5.10 | |
| September 29 |
Heat Engines | 5.11-5.12 | |
| October 1 |
Canonical Ensemble | 6.1-6.8, 7.1-7.2 | 5.2, 5.3 |
| October 4 |
Equipartition Theorem | 7.5-7.7 | 6.2 |
| October 6 |
first prelim | ||
| October 8 |
Kinetic Theory of Gases | 7.9-7.13 | |
| October 13 | Diatomic Ideal Gas | 9.12 | |
| October 15 |
Chemical Potential | 8.1-8.4, 8.7, 8.9, 8.10 | |
| October 18 |
Liquid-Vapor Phase Transition | 8.5, 8.6, 8.8 | 12.1 |
| October 20 | Grand Canonical Ensemble | 6.9 | 5.4 |
| October 22 | Classical Nonideal Gas | 10.3-10.5 | |
| October 25 | Paramagnetism | 7.8 | |
| October 27 |
Ferromagnetism | 10.6, 10.7 | 7.1 |
| October 29 |
Magnetic Cooling | 11.1-11.4 | |
| November 1 |
Bose-Einstein Statistics | 6.3, 6.4 |
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| November 3 |
Bose-Einstein Condensation | 9.1-9.6 | 6.6 |
| November 5 |
Photons | 9.13 |
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| November 8 |
second prelim |
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| November 10 | Black-body Radiation | 9.14, 9.15 | 6.6 |
| November 12 | Phonons | 7.7, 10.1, 10.2 | |
| November 15 | Fermi-Dirac Statistics | 9.7, 9.8 | 6.3, 6.4 |
| November 17 |
Sommerfeld Model | 9.16-9.17 | 6.7 |
| November 19 |
Transport |
Ch. 12, 13, 14 |
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| December 1 |
Renormalization Group (1) | ||
| December 3 |
Renormalization Group (2) |
You can find the notes handed out in lecture here (ps, pdf).
Relevant chapters in other books:
Probability Theories: Ambegaokar, Chs. 1-6
Building blocks of Statistical Mechanics: Bailerlein,
Ch. 4; Waldram, Chs. 2, 19.
Gibbs and the Gibbs paradox: Gibbs, Ch. 15 and here.
Thermodynamics: Bailerlein, Ch. 2; Waldram, Chs. 7, 8.
Heat engines: Baierlein, Ch. 3.
Canonical ensemble: Baierlein, Ch. 5.
Diatomic ideal gas: Widom, Ch. 2.
Chemical potential: Baierlein, Ch. 7; Waldram, Ch. 11; Widom,
Ch. 3.
Classical nonideal gas: Waldram, Ch. 14; Widom, Ch. 6.
Magnetism: Waldram, Ch. 18.
Magnetic cooling: Waldram, Ch. 15.
Bose-Einstein condensation: Nobel
Prize 2001.