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| 0351-3209 | Statistical Thermodynamics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 3.0
Course description
- The context of statistical thermodynamics
- Reminders: principles of thermodynamics, principles of probability and statistics
- Fundamental assumptions of statistical mechanics, statistical ensembles
- Micro-canonical ensemble: state counting, entropy
- Canonical ensemble: Boltzmann distribution, canonical partition function, Helmholtz free energy
- Fluctuations, ensemble equivalence
- Non-degenerate ideal gases: monatomic gas, molecular gas
- Classical statistical thermodynamics: phase space, equipartition, classical ideal gas, Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution
- Nonideal gas: second virial coefficient, van der Waals equation of state
- Correlations in liquids
- Grand-canonical ensemble: Gibbs distribution, grand partition function
- Degenerate ideal gases: Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein distributions, density of states
- Fermionic ideal gas
- Bosonic ideal gas, Bose-Einstein condensation