Statistical Physics

Lecturer:

Petr Kulhánek (gar.), Martin Žáček

Tutor:

Petr Kulhánek (gar.), Martin Žáček

Supervisor:

Department of Physics

Synopsis:

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

Requirements:

Theoretical Physics 1

Syllabus of lectures:

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.

Syllabus of tutorials:

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

Study Objective:

Study materials:

[1] P. Kulhánek: Statistická fyzika, ČVUT, 2004, http://www.aldebaran.cz/studium/statistika.pdf

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

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2011/2012:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
Fri
Thu	room Žáček M. 09:15–11:45 (lecture parallel1) room Žáček M. 11:45–12:30 (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.1)
Fri

Time-table for summer semester 2011/2012:

Time-table is not available yet

The course is a part of the following study plans: