Physics D16-2 -20
STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND MODERN HYDRODYNAMICS

Instructor: Predrag Cvitanovic
Office Address: 3304 Tech, Evanston Campus
Phone: 847-491-3235
E-mail: p-cvitanovic@nwu.edu

Time: TTh 12:00 - 13:30
Room: 3827 TCH
Expected Enrollment: 5


COURSE DESCRIPTION: 
Correlation functions, measurement, and response theory.  
Group theory for lattices.
Phase transitions, Landau theory of second-order phase transitions, fluctuations, scaling theory, and critical phenomena.  
Hydrodynamics of systems with broken symmetry.
Maybe something althogether different.

PREREQUISITES: Graduate standing or permission of the instructor

TEACHING METHOD: Three lectures per week

EVALUATION METHOD: One or more midterms, homework, and a final examination


p-cvitanovic@nwu.edu
Evanston Campus Registration
Last Updated: April 1, 1998