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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