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STUDY PLANS
2024/2025

Statistical Physics

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Code Completion Credits Range
XP02SF Z,ZK 4 3P+1S
Course guarantor:
Petr Kulhánek
Lecturer:
Antonín Krpenský, Petr Kulhánek
Tutor:
Antonín Krpenský, Petr Kulhánek
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:

To became familiar with basics of the statistical physics according to the outline.

Study materials:

1. P. Kulhánek: Vybrané kapitoly z teoretické fyziky, AGA 2017

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

Note:
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