Lecture Advanced Statistical Physics (WS11/12)

Prof. Dr. Roland Netz
Julius Schulz, Klaus Rinne

FU Berlin, Fachbereich Physik
Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin
Website

Lecture time: Wed 12-14, Fri 12-14, Hörsaal A

General information: scope.pdf

Exam information: hints_new.pdf

Second chance exam:
- Wed. March 21st, 1.15pm (time fixed), Hörsaal A
- only for students who did not pass the first exam
- The modus is the same as in the first exam, described in the hints.

Content:
- equilibrium ensembles
- thermodynamics: thermodynamic potentials, laws of thermodynamics, thermodynamic cycles
- ideal quantum gases
- phase transitions
- interacting systems
- introduction to non-equilibrium statistical mechanics

Contents.pdf

Script:
script (including QS)

Target audience: students admitted to the Master's program

Literature:
R.K. Pathria, Statistical Mechanics (Butterworth Heinemann 1996)
F. Schwabl, Statistical Mechanics (2nd ed., Springer 2006)
F. Reif, Fundamentals of statistical and thermal physics (McGraw-Hill 1965)
W. Nolting, Grundkurs theoretische Physik 6: Statistische Physik (Springer 2005)

Exercises

group 1, Thu 12-14, Seminarraum T1, 1.3.21
group 2, Thu 16-18, Seminarraum T2, 1.4.03

Problem sheets

Problem sheet 1 (19.10.2011)
Problem sheet 2 (27.10.2011)
Problem sheet 3 (new) (02.11.2011)
Problem sheet 4 (09.11.2011)
Problem sheet 5 (16.11.2011)
Problem sheet 6 (23.11.2011)
Problem sheet 7 (30.11.2011)
Problem sheet 8 (07.12.2011)
Problem sheet 9 (14.12.2011)
Problem sheet 10 (new) (04.01.2012)
Problem sheet 11 (11.01.2012)
Problem sheet 12 (18.01.2012)
Problem sheet 13 (25.01.2012)
Problem sheet 14 (01.02.2012)

Solutions

Problem 13.3b

Exam (17.02.2012)

exam part 1
eaxm part 2
solution exam part 1
solution exam part 2

Second Chance Exam (21.03.2012)

exam 2 part 1
eaxm 2 part 2
solution exam 2 part 1
solution exam 2 part 2