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* Exercises: Tu: 12:30 - 14:00 FIAS building 200 | * Exercises: Tu: 12:30 - 14:00 FIAS building 200 | ||
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* Thermal Physics, Charles Kittel/Herbert Kroemer, Freeman, NY | * Thermal Physics, Charles Kittel/Herbert Kroemer, Freeman, NY | ||
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Latest revision as of 10:31, 10 October 2008
Inhalt / topics
- Review of thermodynamics and elementary statistical mechanics
- thermal radiation and Planck distribution
- Gibbs free energy and chemical reactions
- theory of phase transitions
- Bosonic and Fermionic statistics
- lattice gases
- Van der Waals Gas, virial expansion
- various statistical ensembles
Vorkenntnisse / previous knowledge
- classical mechanics
- thermodynamics
Studiennachweis / record of study
- Regelmäßige Teilnahme an Übung, plus erledigen der Übungsaufgaben
- regular participation during the exercise course, plus solving the exercises
Unterrichtssprache / language of instruction
Englisch / english
Zielgruppe / audience
- Diese Vorlesung richtet sich an die Teilnehmer des Masterstudienganges "Computational Science", aber auch interessierte Studenten der angeschlossenen Fachbereiche in anderen MS Programmen.
- The lecture is aimed at the participants of the master study course "computational science". Nevertheless students of other university departements are welcome too.
Angestrebte Zeiten / aimed appointment
- Lecture: Tu: 10:45 - 12:15 FIAS building 101
- Exercises: Tu: 12:30 - 14:00 FIAS building 200
Empfohlene Literatur / recommended literature
- Thermal Physics, Charles Kittel/Herbert Kroemer, Freeman, NY
Lecture
| Date | Subject |
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| 16.10 | The big picture and Intro to Probability  Probability_notes (113 KB) .Lecture0.pdf (548 KB)
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| 23.10. | Overview: States of a model system, law of large numbers Lecture 1.pdf (3.93 MB)
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| 30.10. | Entropy, Temperature, the most probable state, fundamental laws of Thermodynamics. Lecture2.pdf (3.19 MB).
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| 06.11. | The Boltzmann Distribution, Partition function, and Helmholtz free energy
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| 13.11. | Pressure, differential relations |
| 20.11. | The ideal gas |
| 27.11. | Thermal Radiation and Planck distribution |
| 04.12. | Chemical Potential and Gibbs Distribution |
| 11.12. | Chemical Reactions |
| 08.01. | Bosons and Fermions |
| 15.01. | Classical thermodynamics |
| 22.01. | General description of phase transitions, Part 1 |
| 29.01. | VdW gas, theory of phase transitions Part 2, nucleation theory |
| 05.02. | Landau theory
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Tutorial
| Date | Subject |
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| 16.10 | Problems sheet 1 (33 KB)
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| 23.10. | Exercises in class 1 (50 KB)
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| 30.10. | Problems sheet 2 (52 KB)
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| 06.11. | Problems sheet 3 (52 KB)
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| 13.11. | Problems sheet 4 (42 KB)
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| 20.11. | Problems sheet 5 (44 KB)
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| 27.11. | Problems sheet 6 (48 KB)
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| 04.12. | Problems sheet 7 (28 KB)
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