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Alrighty, that's great to hear. Thanks for your time and wishing me luck! Now back to studying...:smile:

Hi Landau, Thanks for replying. Actually, I've already had Statistical Mechanics here (i.e., at the graduate level), so I feel pretty comfortable on that front (as in, canonical and grand canonical roll off my tongue :-p ). It's more the classical thermodynamics aspect that I wanted to...

Hello everyone! I am taking my Physics Ph. D. Qualifier on Friday and Saturday. During Saturday's exam we will be tested on E&M and Thermodynamics/Statistical Mechanics. We get to take 2 books to each exam, so I basically can take 1 Thermo Book with me (I'm also taking Griffiths on Saturday)...

Hello fellow physicists! This is a problem out of my graduate E&M course, and I was hoping some of y'all might have some ideas on it. We have an uncharged conducting sphere. It is floating half-submerged in a bath of oil (with dielectric constant \epsilon ). Now we put a charge Q on the...

Hello Fellow Physicists! I'm having trouble with a problem from a graduate course in Statistical Mechanics. It's a two part question; I've got the first part, it's the second part that's giving me trouble. The problem is about reversible/adiabatic processes, thinking of "reversible" as...