Statistical Physics and Thermodynamics

Major: Applied Physics and Nanomaterials
Code of subject: 6.105.00.O.042
Credits: 4.00
Department: Applied Physics and Nanomaterials Science
Lecturer: Associate Professor Ponedilok Hryhorii
Semester: 7 семестр
Mode of study: денна
Learning outcomes: • basic physical concepts, phenomena and laws that make up the phenomenological description of the thermodynamic properties of equilibrium and non-equilibrium systems; • the main provisions of the method of statistical description of macroscopic systems in the language of thermodynamic ensembles; • effective methods for calculating the thermodynamic functions of model statistical ensembles.
Required prior and related subjects: pre-requisites: • Mathematical analysis • Molecular physics • Theoretical mechanics • Electrodynamics and field theory • Mathematical analysis
Summary of the subject: Basic concepts and laws of thermodynamics. Method of thermodynamic potentials. Conditions of equilibrium and stability. Phase transitions. Fundamentals of nonequilibrium thermodynamics. Elements of the kinetic theory of gases. Brownian movement. Random processes. Basic principles of classical statistical mechanics Gibbs. Gibbs Statistical Quantum Ensembles. Microcanonical Ensemble. Canonical and great canonical ensemble. Statistical theory of ideal systems. Statistical theory of classical nonideal systems. Statistical mechanics of systems of classical and quantum lattice and spin systems. Quantum statistical mechanics of systems of identical particles. Theory of thermodynamic fluctuations.
Assessment methods and criteria: • written test -30 points • exam -70 points
Recommended books: 1. Кикоин И.К., Кикоин А.К. Молекулярная физика. – М.: Наука, 1976. 2. Гельфер Я.М. Історія методологія термодинаміки і статистичної фізика, т1,2 М., 1969-1973 3. Базаров І.П. Термодинамика. М., 1976