PřF:F6040 Therm. and stat. phys. - Course Information
F6040 Thermodynamics and statistical physics
Faculty of Sciencespring 2018
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/2/0. 4 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. Mgr. Jiří Krtička, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. Mgr. Jiří Krtička, Ph.D. (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- prof. RNDr. Jana Musilová, CSc.
Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics – Physics Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. Mgr. Jiří Krtička, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics – Physics Section – Faculty of Science - Timetable
- Wed 10:00–11:50 F3,03015
- Timetable of Seminar Groups:
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- ( F4120 Theoretical mechanics && F4090 Electrodyn.and theory of rel. )||( F4100 Introduction to Microphysics )
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Course objectives
- At the end of this course, students should be able to understand the basic principles of thermodynamics. The interpretation of basic ideas and laws of thermodynamics is based on its statistical description. The basic laws of thermodynamics are also derived from principles of statistical physics. However, the main part of the course is mostly based on the classical thermodynamics.
- Syllabus
- 1. The main ideas of thermodynamics. Descriptions of systems of many particles. State and process. Thermodynamic equilibrium.
- 2. First law of thermodynamics. Force, work, and heat. Adiabatic process. Quasistatic and reversible processes.
- 3. Temperature and entropy. Second law of thermodynamics.
- 4. Third law of thermodynamics. Heat capacity. Ideal gas processes.
- 5. Thermodynamic potentials (energy, free energy, enthalpy, Gibbs function). Maxwell relations.
- 6. Measurement of macroscopic parameters (temperature, heat capacity, compressibility) and relations between it.
- 7. Free expansion of a gas. Joule-Thomson process.
- 8. Heat engines. Implications of third law of thermodynamics.
- 9. Equilibrium and stability conditions. Dependence of thermodynamic quantities on mass. Law of mass action.
- 10. Phase transitions. Classification of phase transitions. First-order phase transitions, phase diagram.
- 11. Maxwell-Boltzmann gas.
- 12. Fluctuations.
- 13. Magnetism.
- Literature
- REIF, F. Fundamentals of statistical and thermal physics. Auckland: McGraw-Hill, 1965, x, [10]. ISBN 007085615X. info
- KVASNICA, Jozef. Termodynamika. Vyd. 1. Praha: Státní nakladatelství technické literatury, 1965, 394 s. info
- Thermal physics. Edited by Ralph Baierlein. 1st publ. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, xiii, 442. ISBN 0-521-59082-5. info
- LEONTOVIČ, Michail Aleksandrovič. Úvod do thermodynamiky. 1. vyd. Praha: Nakladatelství Československé akademie věd, 1957, 191 s. info
- FERMI, Enrico. Termodinamika. Izd. 2-oje, stereotipnoje. Char'kov: Izdatel'stvo Char'kovskogo universiteta, 1973, 136 s. info
- KONDEPUDI, Dilip and Ilya PRIGOGINE. Modern thermodynamics : from heat engines to dissipative structures. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 1998, xvii, 486. ISBN 0-471-97393-9. info
- KVASNICA, Jozef. Statistická fyzika. 2. vyd. Praha: Academia, 1998, 314 s. ISBN 8020006761. info
- LANDAU, Lev Davidovič and Jevgenij Michajlovič LIFŠIC. Statistical physics. Translated by J. B. Sykes - M. J. Kearsley. 3rd ed. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2001, xvii, 544. ISBN 0-7506-3372-7. info
- Teaching methods
- Lectures and exercises. Exescises are available at http://www.physics.muni.cz/~krticka/vyuka.html
- Assessment methods
- Oral and written exam. Students are graded according to the results of the oral and written exam. 2 written test during the term. 50% of marks are necessary.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Follow-Up Courses
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
- Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
- Enrolment Statistics (spring 2018, recent)
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