Current Semester
Fall 2021: PHYSICS 510 Statistical Mechanics
Previous Semesters
Winter 2021: PHYSICS 463 Introduction to Solid State Physics
Fall 2020: PHYSICS 510 Statistical Mechanics ( See Canvas webpage )
Winter 2020: PHYSICS 406 Statistical and Thermal Physics ( See Canvas webpage )
Fall 2019: PHYSICS 510 Statistical Mechanics ( See Canvas webpage )
Winter 2019: PHYSICS 406 Statistical and Thermal Physics ( See Canvas webpage )
Fall 2018: PHYSICS 510 Statistical Mechanics ( See Canvas webpage )
Fall 2017: PHYSICS 510 Statistical Mechanics ( See Canvas webpage )
Winter 2017: PHYSICS 463 Introduction to Solid State Physics ( See Canvas webpage )
Fall 2016: PHYSICS 510 Statistical Mechanics ( See Canvas webpage )
Winter 2016: PHYSICS 463 Introduction to Solid State Physics ( See Canvas webpage )
Fall 2015: PHYSICS 406 Statistical and Thermal Physics ( See Canvas webpage )
Winter 2015: Physics 520 Condensed Matter Physics 1
Course Syllabus and introduction materials
- Posted on the course CTools website.
Lecture Notes
- Posted on the course CTools website.
Fall 2014: Physics 406 Statistical and Thermal Physics
Course Syllabus and introduction materials
- Posted on the course CTools website.
Lecture Notes
- Posted on the course CTools website.
Winter 2014: Physics 520 Condensed Matter Physics 1
Course Syllabus and introduction materials
Lecture Notes
- Introduction Lecture Notes 0 (1/9/2014)
- Lecture Notes 1 (1/14/2014) The Drude Theory I
- Lecture Notes 2 (1/16/2014) The Drude Theory II
- Lecture Notes 3 (1/21/2014) The Sommerfeld Theory I
- Lecture Notes 4 (1/23/2014) The Sommerfeld Theory II
- Lecture Notes 5 (1/30/2014) Crystal Structures I
- Lecture Notes 6 (2/4/2014) Crystal Structures II
- Lecture Notes 7 (2/6/2014) The Reciprocal Lattice
- Lecture Notes 8 (2/11/2014) Structures in Condensed Matter
- Lecture Notes 9 (2/13/2014) Lattice Vibrations
- Lecture Notes 10 (2/18/2014) Phonons I
- Lecture Notes 11 (2/20/2014) Phonons II
- Lecture Notes 12 (2/27/2014) Lattice Anharmonicity
- Lecture Notes 13 (3/11/2014) Bloch’s Theorem
- The rest is posted on the course CTools website.
Winter 2013: Physics 520 Condensed Matter Physics 1
Course Syllabus and introduction materials
Lecture Notes
- Lecture Notes 1 (1/15/2013)
- Lecture Notes 2 (1/17/2013)
- Lecture Notes 3 (1/22/2013)
- Lecture Notes 4 (1/24/2013)
- Lecture Notes 5 (1/29/2013)
- Lecture Notes 6 (1/31/2013)
- Lecture Notes 7 (2/5/2013)
- Lecture Notes 8 (2/7/2013)
- Lecture Notes 9 (2/12/2013)
- Lecture Notes 10 (2/14/2013)
- Lecture Notes 11 (2/19/2013)
- Lecture Notes 12 (2/21/2013)
- Lecture Notes 13 (2/26/2013)
- Lecture Notes 14 (3/12/2013)
- Lecture Notes 15 (3/14/2013)
- Lecture Notes 16 (3/25/2013)
- Lecture Notes 17 (3/26/2013)
- Lecture Notes 18 (3/28/2013)
- Lecture Notes 19 (4/2/2013)
- Lecture Notes 20 (4/4/2013)
- Lecture Notes 21 (4/5/2013)
- Lecture Notes 22 (4/9/2013)
Fall 2012: Physics 406 Statistical and Thermal Physics
Course Syllabus and introduction materials
- Course Syllabus (9/5/2012) Updated (10/1/2012)
- First Class Slides (pdf) (9/5/2012)
- First Class Slides (pptx) (9/5/2012)
- Survey on prior knowledge (9/7/2012)
Lecture Notes
- Lecture Notes 2 (9/7/2012)
- Lecture Notes 3 (9/10/2012)
- Lecture Notes 4 (9/12/2012)
- Lecture Notes 5 (9/14/2012)
- Lecture Notes 6 (9/17/2012)
- Lecture Notes 7 (9/19/2012)
- Lecture Notes 8 (9/21/2012)
- Lecture Notes 9 (9/24/2012)
- Lecture Notes 10 (9/26/2012)
- Lecture Notes 11 (9/28/2012)
- Lecture Notes 12 (10/1/2012)
- Lecture Notes 13 (10/3/2012)
- Lecture Notes 14 (10/5/2012)
- Lecture Notes 15 (10/8/2012)
- Lecture Notes 16 (10/12/2012)
- Lecture Notes 17 (10/17/2012)
- Lecture Notes 18 (10/19/2012)
- Lecture Notes 19 (10/22/2012)
- Lecture Notes 20 (10/24/2012)
- Lecture Notes 21 (10/26/2012)
- Lecture Notes 22 (10/29/2012)
- Lecture Notes 23 (10/31/2012)
- Lecture Notes 24 (11/2/2012)
- Lecture Notes 25 (11/5/2012)
- Lecture Notes 26 (11/7/2012)
- Lecture Notes 27 (11/9/2012)
- Lecture Notes 28 (11/12/2012)
- Lecture Notes 29 (11/14/2012)
- Lecture Notes 30 (11/16/2012)
- Lecture Notes 31 (11/19/2012)
- Lecture Notes 32 (11/21/2012)
- Lecture Notes 33 (11/26/2012)
- Lecture Notes 34 (11/28/2012)
- Lecture Notes 35 (11/30/2012)
- Lecture Notes 36 (12/3/2012)
- Lecture Notes 37 (12/5/2012)
- Lecture Notes 38 (12/7/2012)
- Lecture Notes 39 (12/10/2012)
Homework Assignments (Posted on CTools)