D. M. Wood

Meyer Hall 454

(303) 273-3853

Office hours and help session

Homework assignments

Problem Set 2

Problem Set 3 (typo corrected, additional figure)

Problem Set 4, revised for typos; Nitrogen data for Problem Set 3 [N2data]

Problem Set 5

Problem Set 6

Problem Set 7

Problem Set 8

Problem Set 9; Al superconducting data for superconducting Al [AlloTCp]

Problem Set 10

Problem Set 11 (couple typos corrected)

Problem Set 12 (couple typos corected, some suggestions)

Exams

Actual `hour' test 1

Sample `hour' test 2

Actual `hour' test 2

Sample final exam problems

Handouts or Class Notes

Notes on Monte Carlo for Problem Set 10

Notes on combinatorics, microstates, macrostates

Non-GCE derivation of F-D, B-E,M-B statistics

Entropy convexity diagram

Thermodynamics (little stat mech) notes [5 MB]

Notes: Sethna Chaps. 1-3 [4 MB]

Notes: Sethna Chaps. 5, 6, 7 with a few pictures [9 MB]

Critical phenomena notes and pictures [3.6 MB]

Notes: Sethna and fluctuation/dissipation theorem [1.4 MB]

Useful Mathematica Notebooks

• Remove my comments and section headings (and replace them with your own) and be sure to put in a written explanation of what you are doing!
• Make sure that your Notebook runs correctly if saved and re-run from scratch with Mathematica. (I've seen too many Notebooks consisting of a random sequence of attempts to simplify expressions, with non-reproducible results because competing variable definitions were used at different times.)
• If you turn in a printout, make sure it is printed `2up', i.e., with two logical Notebook pages per physical sheet. This is easy enough to read without wasting paper.

Non-linear fitting example for Mma 5.2 or Mma 6.x and Sample data for non-linear fitting [SampNL.data]

Importance sampling example notebook for Mma 6.x or Mma 5.x