Statistical Thermodynamics
0351.3209
Undergraduate course, Semester A, 2009/2010
Monday, 16:00-19:00, Ornstein 110
Announcements:
Lecturer: Haim Diamant
(Ornstein 404A, 6967, hdiamant@tau.ac.il)
Teaching Assistant:
Mr. Shlomi Reuveni
(Ornstein 218, 5658, shlomire@tau.ac.il)
Mailing
list
Course fact sheet including a detailed syllabus
Bibliography
Program
- Lecture 1 (19/10/09)
- The context of statistical thermodynamics: why study large systems separately?
- Reminder of thermodynamics: thermodynamic laws, thermodynamic potentials, natural
variables
- Ensembles
- Underlying assumptions:
ergodicity, Gibbs' entropy, the fundamental postulate
Simulation of irreversibility in a gas of hard disks
- Lecture 2 (26/10/09)
- Microcanonical ensemble
- Tutoring: system of two-state particles;
entropy of mixing; system of independent harmonic oscillators.
Exercise #1
Solution #1
- Lecture 3 (2/11/09)
- Systems in thermal contact
- Canonical ensemble: Boltzmann distribution, canonical partition function
- Lecture 4 (9/11/09)
- Tutoring in the canonical ensemble:
system of two-state particles; system of independent
harmonic oscillators.
- Fluctuations and ensemble equivalence
Exercise #2
Solution #2
(courtesy of Mr. Tal Levy)
- Lecture 5 (16/11/09)
- Non-degenerate monoatomic ideal gas
- Lecture 6 (23/11/09)
- Non-degenerate molecular ideal gas
- Tutoring: rotational degrees of freedom in a diatomic ideal gas
- Classical statistical thermodynamics
Exercise #3
Solution #3
Article addressing Ex3/Q4
- Lecture 7 (30/11/09)
- Lecture 8 (7/12/09)
- Nonideal gas: second virial coefficient; van der Waals equation of state
- Tutoring: freely jointed chain
Exercise #4
Solution #4
- Lecture 9 (14/12/09)
- Tutoring: freely jointed chain (cont.)
- Lecture 10 (21/12/09)
- Systems in thermal and diffusive contact
- Grand-canonical ensemble: Gibbs distribution, grand-canonical partition function
- Lecture 11 (28/11/09)
- Tutoring: non-degenerate ideal gas in the grand-canonical ensemble
- Degenerate ideal gases: Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein distributions
- Fermionic gas
Exercise #5
Solution #5
- Lecture 12 (4/1/10)
- Fermionic gas (cont.):
Fermi energy, internal energy at T=0, density of states, thermodynamic
properties at T>0
- Lecture 13 (11/1/10)
- Tutoring: density of states
- Bosonic gas: Bose-Einstein condensation
- Correlations in liquids
Exercise #6
Solution #6
- Lecture 14 (18/1/10)
- Correlations in liquids (cont.)
- Tutoring
Past exams
2009/2010 A