Statistical Physics

Garant předmětu:

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:

Honourable

Study materials:

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

Note:

Further information:

www.aldebaran.cz/studium/statistika.php

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans: