Results of the PS7 survey

Here were your choices of artistic electives:

Music history/theory - 3
Music performance - 7
Visual art - 3
Art history - 2
Dance - 3
Drama - 1
Filmmaking - 1

Extra credit quiz

If anyone wasn't in class Wed and would like their quiz back, please stop by my office.

PS8 problem 3c

The defining equation for "a" should have a negative sign.

PS8 due date

Problem set 8 will be due to Sophia no later than Monday, Dec 10, at the beginning of the review session (2-3pm).

Final practice problems

On the practice problems for the final, for the first problem, consider problem 6 on the current problem set. You should be able to show for any pair potential u(r) that B2 can be written as

-2 pi Integral(0 to infinity) [ exp(-beta u(r)) - 1] r^2 dr

where r is the scalar distance between two particles.

PS8 problem 2b

Show that Aex/T and S are independent of T.

review session for final

Sophia will hold a review session for the final on Monday, December 10 the same time and place as the usual class.

Problem 6d on PS8

Instead of what is currently in the problem, consider the following expression for B2 in terms of the configurational integrals,

B2(T) = (Z1^2 - Z2) / (2 Z1^2 / V)

What was written in the problem statement is a simplification of this expression for the case in which there are only pair interactions in the system (no fields).