Statistical Physics - PHYS3020


	Faculty: Faculty of Science
	School: School of Physics
	Course Outline: http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 3
	EFTSL: 0.06250 (more info)
	Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisite: PHYS2060 or PHYS2011.
	Excluded: PHYS3021
	Fee Band: 5 (more info)
	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.