Subject description - BV002SF

Summary of Study | Summary of Branches | All Subject Groups | All Subjects | List of Roles | Explanatory Notes               Instructions
BV002SF Statistical Physics
Roles:  Extent of teaching:3P+1C
Department:13102 Language of teaching:
Guarantors:Kulhánek P. Completion:Z,ZK
Lecturers:Krpenský A., Kulhánek P. Credits:4
Tutors:Krpenský A., Kulhánek P. Semester:Z

Web page:

www.aldebaran.cz/studium/statistika.php

Anotation:

The lecture is devoted to the fundamentals of statistical physics. It is the third part of four-part lecture cycle.

Study targets:

Honourable

Content:

The lecture is devoted to the fundamentals of statistical physics. It is the third part of four-part lecture cycle.

Course outlines:

1. Basic principles: distribution function, mean value, mean quadratic fluctuation.
2. Liouvill theorem. Gibbs distributions.
3. Thermodynamic potentials: enthalpy, free energy, grandcanonical potential.
4. Chemical potential, entropy and probability.
5. Statistical distributions: Boltzmann and Maxwell distribution.
6. Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein distribution.
7. Distributions behaviour and simple examples (black body radiation, ideal gas).
8. Metals, neutron stars.
9. Ferromagnetics a antiferromagnetics: Ising and Heisenberg model.
10. Superconductivity.
11. Degenerative fermion systems, boson condensation.
12. Monte Carlo methods. Metropolis method.
13. Nonequilibrium statistics, Boltzmann equation.
14. Momentum equation, transition to continuum.

Exercises outline:

thermodynamic potentials EOS - ideal gas other EOSs rotational and vibrational spectra Planck law, Stefan-Boltzmann law, Wien law EOS - fermion gas Monte Carlo calculation, various exapmles

Literature:

1. E. M. Lifshitz, L. D. Landau. Course in theoretical Physics 5: Statistical Physics, Elsewier Science, 2003

Requirements:

Theoretical Physics 1

Keywords:

prtition function, statistical distribution, Bose-Einstein Distribution, Fermi-Dirac distribution, Boltzmann distribution

Subject is included into these academic programs:

Program Branch Role Recommended semester


Page updated 26.4.2024 05:51:27, semester: Z/2024-5, Z,L/2023-4, Send comments about the content to the Administrators of the Academic Programs Proposal and Realization: I. Halaška (K336), J. Novák (K336)