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Instructors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Peter van Dongen
Event type:
online: Lecture/practice class
Displayed in timetable as:
Theo Physik 4
Hours per week:
6
Credits:
9,0
Language of instruction:
German
Min. | Max. participants:
- | -
Requirements / organisational issues:
see "Modulhandbuch"
Contents:
- Introduction to Statistical Thermodynamics
- Thermodynamics: basic concepts, laws, equations of state, thermodynamic potentials, response functions
- Statistical Mechanics: principles, density matrix and entropy; ensembles, partition functions
- Applications of statistical mechanics: Ideal quantum gases: Fermi and Bose gas, Bose-Einstein condensation, phonons, photons; real gases; magnetism; phase transitions; fluctuations and dynamic correlations
Recommended reading list:
- P.G.J. van Dongen, Statistische Physik (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2017) (available as pdf download from the JGU library for JGU students. Link: https://opac.ub.uni-mainz.de/DB=1/SET=1/TTL=1/SHW?FRST=2 )
- F. Schwabl, Statistische Mechanik (Springer, Berlin, 2000)
- L.E. Reichl, A Modern Course in Statistical Physics (Univ. of Texas Press, Austin, 1980)
- L.D. Landau and E.M. Lifshitz, Course of Theoretical Physics, Vol. 5, Statistical Physics, Part 1 (Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1980)
- K. Huang, Statistical Mechanics (Wiley, New York, 1987)
- R. Kubo, Statistical Mechanics (North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1988)
- R.P. Feynman, Statistical Mechanics: A Set of Lectures (Perseus Books, 1998)
- R. Becker, Theorie der Wärme (Springer, Berlin, 1978)
- S. G. Brush, Statistical Physics and the Atomic Theory of Matter (Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, 1983)
Additional information:
A handout will be provided.
Further information will be available from the beginning of November 2020 on
https://reader.uni-mainz.de
Digital teaching:
If applicabe, more information will be available at a later stage.
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