Date

Topics

Book Chapters

Oblig

ti. 20.aug

Overview on the thermodynamics

and statistical physics

(LA)

to. 22. aug.

Basic concepts:

Temperature, Energy, Heat and Work 

Principle of thermodynamics

(LA)

1.1-3,

ti. 27. aug.

Ideal gas model;

Equipartion of energy

(DKD)

1.2-6

ti. 29. aug.

Basic concept: Microstates

and macrostates,

counting states (multiplicity)

Applications:

paramagnetic model, Einstein solid 

(DKD)

2.1-3

ti. 3. sep.

Multiplicity of Einstein solid,

Large multiplicity limit,

Stirling approximation

(DKD)

2.4

to. 5. sep.

Multiplicity of the ideal gas

(DKD)

2.5

Oblig 1

ti. 10. sep.

Basic concept: Entropy

Second law of thermodynamics

(DKD)

2.6

to. 12. sep.

Thermal equilibrium:

entropy, heat and temperature

(DKD)

3.1-2

ti. 17. sep.

Mechanical and

chemical equilibrium:

mechanical work,

pressure, chemical potential

(LA)

3.4-5

to. 19. sep.

Basic concept: Free energies

Legendre transform

(LA)

Oblig 1 (hand-in)

ti. 24. sep.

Free energies and

thermodynamic equilibrium states

(LA)

5.1-2

Oblig 2

to. 26. sep.

Applications:

Heat engines

and refrigerators
 (LA)

4.1-2

ti. 1. okt.

Thermodynamic equilibrium

Phase transformation

(LA)

5.3

to. 3. okt.

Boltzmann statistics,

Boltzmann entropy

Basic concept: Partition function

(LA)

6.1-4, 6.6

ti. 8 okt,

No lectures- midterm break

Oblig 2
(hand-in)

to. 10 okt

No lectures- midterm break

Oblig 3

Oblig 2
(hand-in)

ti. 15. okt.

Lab

to. 17. okt.

Lab

ti. 22. okt.

Lab

to. 24. okt.

Lab

ti. 29. okt.

Helmoltz free energy,

canonical partition function

(LA)

6.5

Oblig 3
(hand-in)
Oblig 4

to. 31. okt.

Cassical ideal gas revisited
 Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution
(LA)

6.7

ti. 5. nov.

Chemical potential
(DKD)

2.6,3.5,5.1,5.2,6.7

to. 7. nov.

Open systems and the Gibbs factor

(DKD)

7.1

ti. 12. nov.

Ideal quantum gas model:

Fermi distribution and degenerate stars
(LA)

7.2, 7.3

Oblig 4
(hand-in)

to. 14. nov.

Bose distribution, black-body radiation, cosmic wave radiation  (LA)

7.4

ti. 19. nov.

Phonon gas and Einstein solid

(LA)

7.5

to. 21. nov.

Recap

(LA & DKD)

ti. 26. nov.

Recap

(LA & DKD)

to. 28. nov.

Recap

(LA & DKD)

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