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.
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.
There are weekly tutorial sessions;
schedule, and venue to be announced;
first sessions in week 2.
Problem sets are posted in the
In each problem set there is one Exercise marked for submission of a written
solution.
The lecture notes are posted in the
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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Online version available for NUS students and staff.
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Science library call number:
Library of Congress call number:
Online version available for NUS students and staff.
Science library call number:
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