Statistical Physics - PHYS3020

Faculty: Faculty of Science

School: School of Physics

Course Outline: http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/

Campus: Sydney

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 3

EFTSL: 0.06250 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2

Enrolment Requirements:

Prerequisite: PHYS2060 or PHYS2011; Exclusion: PHYS3021

CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

Description

Thermodynamic probability, Boltzmann entropy, Boltzman distribution, Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein distributions, termodynamics from the partition function. Micro-canonical, canonical and grand canonical ensembles, fluctuations. heat capacity of diatomics, Einstein and Debye models, paramagnetism. Blackbody radiation, Bose-Einstein condensation, liquid helium. Fermi energy, free elctrons and the Fermi gas, applications.