FYSA2040 Statistical physics, part A (5 cr)

• Laws of thermodynamics
  

• System microstates and macrostate

• Temperature, pressure, internal energy, heat and work

• Entropy, reversible and irreversible processes

• Response functions, such has heat capacity

• Cyclic Processes and Carnot's engine

• Classical phase space
  

• Paramagnetism, magnetic cooling

• Phase transitions, condition of phase equilibrium

• Ising Model; mean field approximation and simulation

After finishing the course the student

• knows the laws of thermodynamics

• understands what entropy means
  
• knows the most important thermodynamical potential
• understands how a heat bath affect the system and why it leads to the Boltzmann distribution in energies.
  

• Can derive thermodynamical variables starting from an energy spectrum and partition function

• knows the thermodynamics of cyclic prosesses, such as heat engines, refrigerators, and heat pumps
  

• Knows the connection between statistical physics and thermodynamics

• has basic knowledge of the thermodynamics of phase transitions and can read phase diagrams
  

• FYSP1010 Principles of Mechanics (Mekaniikan perusteet)

• FYSP1020 Vibrations and Thermodynamics (Värähtelyt ja termodynamiikka),

• FYSA2003 Modern physics, part A, (Moderni fysiikka, osa A)

• MATP211-213 Calculus 1-3,

• MATA114 Differential Equations (Differentiaaliyhtälöt) (or similar)

• Warmly recommended: FYSA2030 Quantum Mechanics, part A. 

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