Course code 07 53 4501 20
ECTS credits 5
Course title in the language of instruction 
Termodynamika i fizyka statystyczna
Course title in Polish Termodynamika i fizyka statystyczna
Course title in English 
Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics
Language of instruction Polish
Course level first-cycle programme
Course coordinator dr hab. inż. Jaromir Tosiek
Course instructors dr inż. Ewa Pastorczak, dr hab. inż. Jaromir Tosiek
Delivery methods and course duration
Lecture Tutorials Laboratory Project Seminar Other Total of teaching hours during semester
Contact hours 30 35 0 65
E-learning No No No No No No
Assessment criteria (weightage) 0.50 0.50 0.00
Course objective
  1. To acquaint a student with the foundations of thermodynamics and statistical physics and to explain the mutual relations between these two physical theories.
  2. To teach a student the methods of solving the problems in thermodynamics and statistical physics.
Learning outcomes 
  1. The  student defines the basic concepts of thermodynamics and statistical physics. He\she recalls the main principles, statistical distributions and equations (FFT1A_W02, FFT1A_W07);
  2.   The student solves standard problems of thermodynamics and statistical physics (FFT1A_U02, FFT1A_U05);
  3.   The student employs thermodynamics and statistical physics to various parts of physics (hydrodynamics, solid state physics, etc.) (FFT1A_U04);
Assessment methods 
The learning outcomes  are verified by observation  by a final colloquium consisting of theoretical and practical tasks.
Prerequisites 
Knowledge of foundations of thermodynamics, theoretical mechanics ( the canonical formalism by Hamilton) and foundations of quantum mechanics.
Course content with delivery methods 
LECTURE
Thermodynamical parameters. Reversible and irreversible processes. Principles of thermodynamics. Entropy and the thermodynamical potentials. Phase space and description of a physical system in statistical physics. Density matrix. The classical Liouville theorem and the quantum Liouville-von Neumann theorem. Entropy in statistical physics. The principle of increasing of entropy. Microcanonical, canonical and grand canonical ensembles. Partition function. Relation between the thermodynamical functions and the partition function. Maxwell distribution. Ideal gas. Boltzmann distribution. Thermodynamical functions, the state equation and specific heat of Boltzmann ideal gas. Fermi-Dirac distribution. The specific heat of electron gas. Bose-Einstein distribution. The Bose-Einstein condensation. The black body radiation and the photon gas.Theory of fluctuations. Brownian movement. Foundations of thermodynamics and statistical physics of irreversible processes. The kinetic Boltzmann equation.

TUTORIALS
Students solve the problems in thermodynamics and statistical physics in the scope of the material delivered in the course of the lectures and they are given some new knowledge important to search for solutions of the physical problems closely related to thermodynamics or statistical physics.
Basic reference materials 
  1.  1. K.Zalewski, Wykłady z termodynamiki fenomenologicznej i statystycznej, PWN, Warszawa 1973.
  2.  2. L.D.Landau, J.M.Lifszic, Fizyka statystyczna Cz.1, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 2012.
  3.  3. K.Huang, Podstawy fizyki statystycznej, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 2006.
Other reference materials 
  1.   K.Huang, Mechanika statystyczna, PWN, Warszawa 1987.
  2.  J.M.Lifszic, L.P.Pitajewski, Fizyka statystyczna Cz.2, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 2012.
  3.  M.Toda, R.Kubo, N.Saito, Fizyka statystyczna, PWN, Warszawa 1991.
  4.  R.Feynman, Mechanika statystyczna, PWN, Warszawa 1974.
Average student workload outside classroom 
71
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