This page contains lecture notes and handouts for Chem 544. Some of the handouts are informational; must-do reading will be assigned in lecture.

Corections and additions to the lecture notes will also be posted here. This is the first time I have typed them up, and I would appreciate if you email me typos you found by the end of the semester.


Notes Appendix A (Math for advanced physical chemistry)


Notes 2 (= short version of classical mechanics and E&M)


Notes 3 (Density matrices)


Handout: classical-quantum correspondence in statistical mechanics


Handout: postulates of statistical mechanics


Handout: postulates of thermodynamics


Chapter 1 thermodynamics


Chapter 2 thermodynamics


Chapter 3 thermodynamics


Chapter 4 thermodynamics


Chapter 5 thermodynamics


Chapter 6 thermodynamics


Chapter 7 thermodynamics


Chapter 8 thermodynamics


Chapter 9 statistical mechanics


Chapter 10 statistical mechanics


Chapter 11 statistical mechanics


Classical vs. quantum mechanics notation


Wavefunction, vector and Dirac notation


My Chem 542 Ch3 lecture notes on density matrices


Chapter 12 statistical mechanics


Chapter 13 statistical mechanics


Chapter 14 statistical mechanics


Chapter 15 statistical mechanics


Notes Chapters 16-18 will not be covered this year (structure factors, renormalization group theory and mean field theory).

Chapter 19 statistical mechanics


Chapter 20 statistical mechanics


Statistics (means, correlations, and Central Limit Theorem)

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Fall 2009