General

During AY 2018/19 Sem 1, all announcements for PC4241 will be posted here.
Students enrolled in PC4241 are advised to bookmark this page and are expected to check for announcements regularly.

Timetable

Lectures are held in S12-04-03, Mondays and Thursdays, 8:00-9:35am.
First lecture on Monday, 13 August; last lecture on Thursday, 15 November.
There will be two Class Tests, the first on 1 October (Monday) and the second on 1 November (Thursday); the Exam is on Tuesday, 4 December, 9-11am. The two tests and the exam are held in S12-04-02.

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Assessment

20% Tutorial participation
30% Two class tests
50% Exam

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1st Class Test

Problems - Solutions - Scores sorted by identifier, by total score

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2nd Class Test

Problems - Solutions - Scores sorted by identifier, by total score

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Exam

Problems - Solutions

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Tutorial sessions

There are weekly tutorial sessions; schedule, and venue to be announced; first sessions in week 2.

Problem sets are posted in the IVLE Workbin for PC4241.
In each problem set there is one Exercise marked for submission of a written solution.

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Lecture Notes and Textbooks

The lecture notes are posted in the IVLE Workbin for PC4241, one set for each lecture.
These notes are for the students enrolled in PC4241 only; distribution to others is not permitted.

Other than that, no particular textbook is assigned to the module. Students who wish to read/consult textbooks in addition are encouraged to do so, whereby any textbook of their liking is OK. There are many good books on statistical mechanics, some more elementary, others more advanced. Here are a few books that enjoy a very good reputation:

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