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-====== 11210PHYS113403 ====== +This page is moved to https://pcchen.github.io/teaching/11210PHYS113403.html
-====== 普通物理A一(General Physics A (I)) ======+
  
-===== Instructor ===== 
-  * Prof. Pochung Chen 
-  * R521, Physics building 
-  * pcchen {at} phys {dot} nthu {dot} edu {dot} tw 
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-===== Teaching Assistant ===== 
-  * 林彥彤 aronton0502 {at} gmail {dot} com 
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-===== Time ===== 
-  * R5R6R7 
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-===== Room ===== 
-  * Room 501 
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-===== Grade ===== 
-  * TBA 
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-===== References ===== 
-  * Daniel Arovas, [[https://courses.physics.ucsd.edu/2018/Spring/physics210a/LECTURES/BOOK_STATMECH.pdf|Lecture Notes on Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics]], (A Work in Progress), in PDF (2020). 
-    * [[https://phys.libretexts.org/Under_Construction/Arovas_Texts/Book%3A_Thermodynamics_and_Statistical_Mechanics_(Arovas)/09%3A_Renormalization|Chapter 9: Renormalization]].  
-  * R. J. Baxter, [[http://physics.anu.edu.au/theophys/_files/Exactly.pdf|Exactly Solved Models in Statistical Mechanics]], in PDF (1989) 
-    * Chapter 2, Chapter 6. 
-  * R. K. Pathria, Paul D. Beale, [[https://www.amazon.com/Statistical-Mechanics-Third-R-Pathria/dp/0123821886/ |Statistical Mechanics]], 3rd Edition (2011). 
-    * Chapter 12, Chapter 13, Chapter 14. 
-==== Critical phenomena, Renormalization ==== 
-  * Kim Christensen and Nicholas R. Moloney, [[https://www.amazon.co.uk/Complexity-Criticality-Imperial-College-Advanced/dp/1860945171 | Complexity and Criticality]], 1st Edition, (2005). 
-    * Chapter 2. 
-  * Michael Cross, [[http://www.pmaweb.caltech.edu/~mcc/Ph127/index.html|Statistical Physics]]. 
-    * Lecture 8, 9, 10, 11. 
-  * Leonid Levitov, [[http://www.mit.edu/~levitov/8.334/|Statistical Physics II]], (MIT, 2003). 
-    * Lecture 5, 6, 7. 
-    * [[Ising Model]] 
-    * [[https://www.dropbox.com/s/68f8ii034vbxlrk/sandvik3.pdf?dl=0|Systematic finite-size scaling methods for analyzing critical points (and ordered phases)]], Anders W Sandvik, Boston University. 
-===== Topics ===== 
-  * Phase transitions. 
-     * Abrupt phase transitions. 
-     * Continuous phase transitions. 
-  * Mean-field theories. 
-  * Landau theory. 
-  * Renormalization group. 
-  * Tensor network. 
-  * Exact solutions. 
-  * Models: 
-     * Ising model. 
-     * Potts model. 
-     * XY model. 
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-===== Weekly schedule ===== 
-  * Week 1: 9/17/2020 
-    * The van der Waals system. 
-    * Fluids, Magnets, and the Ising Model. 
-    * Arovas, Chapter 7.2, 7.3.  
-  * Week 2: 9/24/2020 
-    * Mean Field Theory. 
-    * Arovas, Chapter 7.4.  
-  * Week 3: 10/1/2020 中秋節 
-    * No class. 
-  * Week 4: 10/8/2020 
-    * Variational Density Matrix Method. 
-    * Arovas, Chapter 7.5.  
-  * Week 5: 10/15/2020 
-    * Variational Density Matrix Method. 
-    * Arovas, Chapter 7.6. 
-  * Week 6: 10/22/2020 
-    * Variational Density Matrix Method. 
-    * Landau Theory of Phase Transition. 
-    * Arovas, Chapter 7.5, 7.6. 
-  * Week 7: 10/29/2020 
-    * Landau Theory of Phase Transition. 
-    * Ising model. 
-    * Arovas, Chapter 7.6, 6.2. 
-  * Week 8: 11/5/2020 
-    * Ising model. 
-    * Transfer matrix, Peierls’ argument. 
-    * Arovas, Chapter 6.2.  
-    * Pathria, Chapter 13.2. 
-    * Baxter, Chapter 2. 
-  * Week 9: 11/12/2020 
-    * 2D Ising model. 
-    * High temperature expansion, low temperature expansion. 
-    * Duality transformation. 
-    * Pathria, Chapter 13.4. 
-    * Baxter, Chapter 6. 
-  * Week 10: 11/19/2020 
-    * Renormalization group. 
-  * Week 11: 11/26/2020 
-    * Renormalization group. 
-  * Week 12: 12/3/2020 
-    * Scaling. 
-    * Renormalization group. 
-  * Week 13: 12/10/2020 
-    * Renormalization group.  
-  * Week 14: 12/17/2020 
-    * Renormalization group. 
-    * Finite size scaling. 
-  * Week 15: 12/24/2020 
-    * Renormalization group. 
-    * Finite size scaling. 
-  * Week 16: 12/31/2020 
-    * Finite size scaling. 
-    * Tensor renormalization group. 
-  * Week 17: 1/7/2021 
-  * Week 18: 1/14/2021 
-===== Homework ===== 
  
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