Course Announcements

« PHYS515 Fall 2009

Review session Monday 12/14/2009

Mon 14Dec2009 5:07PM

There will be a review session Monday evening in the classroom 7;30pm-9pm.

We will go over last year's final exam problems (uploaded under the Handouts section).

 

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Final Exam Schedule

Tue 08Dec2009 5:55PM

Final Exam: 12/16 Wed 3:20-5:20pm in BRNG B222

Closed Book --- a cheat sheet will be provided.

 

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Typo in PS 9 corrected.

Tue 10Nov2009 8:40PM

Please use the updated version uploaded on 11/10/09.

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Class on 10/28 canceled.

Wed 28Oct2009 9:14AM

Class on 10/28 is canceled due to unexpected circumstances. Will make up later.

HWK 7 is now due 11/02.

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Office Hour

Fri 23Oct2009 11:05AM

Friday 2:30pm to 3:30pm, Room G61

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Midterm Exam 10/26

Mon 05Oct2009 7:24PM

Midterm Exam will be held 10/26 Moday from 3:30pm to 5:30pm in usual classroom.

Exam will cover Chap 1-4 on KK.

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Movie this Wednesday Class 09/09

 

 

Tue 08Sep2009 5:13PM

This Wednesday (09/09) in class, we will show the movie "Absolute Zero" about the history of thermal dynamics, statistical physics, and low temperature physics from mainly an experimental perspective. Learn the discoveries of superfluidity and Bose Einstein Condensation as being explained by people who made them!

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Correction to a typo in HWK2

Wed 02Sep2009 2:12PM

 

Problem 2 should read:

 

Check approximation formula (35) for the multiplicity function of binomial distribution (15) in Kittel Chap. 1 numerically for N=10000 and 2s=0, 1000, 5000, 10000. Calculate the exact value (calculate exact values and approximate values and fractional error).

 

Thanks to Brendon Rose (awarded 0.5 bonus pt) for pointing this out.

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Course Blog started

Mon 24Aug2009 4:46PM

http://phys515.blogspot.com/

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