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PHYS-F303

Physique statistique

academic year
2024-2025

Course teacher(s)

Pierre GASPARD (Coordinator) and Bortolo Matteo MOGNETTI

ECTS credits

10

Language(s) of instruction

french

Course content

Statistical description in classical mechanics and quantum mechanics; the equilibrium statistical ensembles (microcanonical, canonical, grand-canonical, isobaric-isothermal); the macroscopic equivalence of ensembles and the fluctuations; the concept of entropy; the ideal gases of atoms and molecules; the ideal quantum gases of bosons and fermions; the quasi-ideal mixtures; the non-ideal systems; introduction to irreversible processes.

Objectives (and/or specific learning outcomes)

The goal of statistical physics is to understand the properties of physical systems with their degrees of freedom statistically distributed according to some probability law.

Prerequisites and Corequisites

Required and corequired courses

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lectures and exercices.

References, bibliography, and recommended reading

cf. lecture notes available on the website "L'Université Virtuelle".

Other information

Contacts

Pierre Gaspard

E-mail: Gaspard.Pierre@ulb.be

Campus

Plaine

Evaluation

Method(s) of evaluation

  • Other

Other

Q1: Written examination on theory and exercices.
Q2: Oral examination on theory and written examination on exercices.

Mark calculation method (including weighting of intermediary marks)


Q1: Written examination 50%;
Q2: written examination 25%, oral examination 25%.

Language(s) of evaluation

  • french

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