FY811: Thermal Physis II (5 ECTS)

STADS: 07004901

Level
Master's level course

Teaching period
The course is offered in the spring semester.
4th quater

Teacher responsible
Email: ipsen@memphys.sdu.dk

Additional teachers
lyngs@memphys.sdu.dk
steen@ifk.sdu.dk
svt@ifk.sdu.dk

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Comment:
Samlæses med andel del af bachelorkurset FY509.

Prerequisites:
None

Academic preconditions:
Bachelor´s degree in Nanobioscience. The course is only intended for students that are enrolled in the master programme nanobioscience. FY810 Thermal physics I must have been attended.

Course introduction
The course gives an introduction to the fundamental concepts of statistical mechanics and thermodynamics and shows their applications to selected physical and chemical systems and to the interpretation of experiments

Expected learning outcome
After having attended the course, the students are expected to be able to: 1. Explain and apply the laws of thermodynamics
2. Apply Maxwell's relations
3. Formulate and use equilibrium conditions
4. Apply the three most common ensembles for calculations of average and dispersion values of standard variables
5. Calculate thermodynamics functions for a degenerate Fermi-Dirac gas, e.g. electrons in solids
6. Write down partition sums for molecules and solids and calculate the appropriate thermodynamica variables
7. Apply the mean field approximation

Subject overview
The topics are applications of statistical mechanics to simple, realistic systems, e.g. quantum systems, phase and chemical equilibria, and the mean field theory of interacting systems. This part starts with experimental exercises that illustrates the importance of Fermi-Dirac statistics for the description of the properties of solids. A written report is written by groups of 1 or 2 students. The report must contain: the needed theory, the measured data, and an interpretation of the data. - Vibration and rotation spectra for diatomic molecules.
- Eistein’s and Debye’s theories of lattice vibrations
- Black body radiation and Bose-Einstein condensation
- Phase equilibrium, chemical equilibrium, the law of mass action.
- Phase changes are discussed, using e.g. the Van der Waals equation of state.
- Mean field theory of interacting systems: Ising model of ferro-magnetism and Debye-H¸ckel theory of diluted ionic solutions.

Literature

• A.H. Carter: Classical and Statistical thermodynamics.

Syllabus
See syllabus.

Website
This course uses e-learn (blackboard).

Prerequisites for participating in the exam
None

Assessment and marking:
a) A 4 hours written exam. No aids allowed except for the textbook and tables. marks according to the danish 7 mark scale, external examiner.

Re-exam after 2nd quater The examination type at reexamination may differ from the one at the ordinary examination.

Expected working hours
The teaching method is based on three phase model.

Forelæsninger: 20 timer Eksaminatorietimer: 22 timer Laboratorieøvelser: 8 timer
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Language
This course is taught in English, if international students participate. Otherwise the course is taught in Danish.

Course enrollment
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Tuition fees for single courses
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