Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
6.728 Applied Quantum and Statistical Physics: Fall 2002
Lectures
Two sessions / week
1.5 hours / session
One session / week
1 hour / session
Hagelstein, P.L., S. D. Senturia, and T. P. Orlando. Introduction to Applied Quantum and Statistical Physics.
Chapters will be distributed in class.
There will be ten homework sets and two quizzes (see also Quizzes below). Homework due dates vary between Lecture days. You may use any resource available on the homework, including textbooks, and you may work with other students in developing both insight and answers. However, you are required to write up your own final solutions and computational codes. If you learn the solution to a problem from another source, whether printed or human, we suggest that you identify the source on your homework paper.
Two one-hour in-class Quizzes on Day 13 and Day 29.
After completing and turning in your Quiz paper, you will be given the Quiz to write up complete Quiz solutions as a take-home exercise. Quiz grades will be computed as the average of your in-class and take-home scores.
There will be a 3 hour final exam.
About 1/3 homework, 1/3 quizzes, and 1/3 final. The instructors reserve the right to use judgment instead of formulae when assigning final grades.
Some of the problem sets will require extensive use of numerical modeling programs such as MATLAB® on Athena. Anyone requiring assistance with getting started with an Athena account, and/or with MATLAB®, should notify the instructors.
MATLAB® is a trademark of The MathWorks, Inc.