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statistical thermodynamics - 124413
  Lecture Tutorial Project/
Seminar 		Laboratory
Weekly
Hours 		2 1    
Credit
Points
2.5
 

Prerequisites: ( intr.to quantum chemi.and applications 124408
and chemical thermodynamics 124415 )
or ( quantum chemistry 1 124400
and chemical thermodynamics 124415 )
Linked Courses: principles of molecular spectroscopy 124417
thermodynamics of materials 315003


Introduction: basic concepts, naxwell velocity distribution.
general formalism: ensembles, density of states, gibbs distribution, partition
function, calculation of thermodynamic functions, thermodynamic equivalence of ensenbles.
Ideal gas of identical particles, the classical limit (boltzmann statistics),
thermodynamic functions of molecular gas, chemical equilibrium.
Quantum statistics: Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein distributions, electrons in
metals, black-body radiation. Mean-field theory of phase transitions.
Statistical models in adsorption and elasticity of polymers. Theory of fluctuations.
The fundamentals of physical kinetics.

 
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