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| PHYS0069-1 | Introduction to statistical physics
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| Duration : | 30h Th, 30h Pr |
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| Credits/ECTS : |
| Master in Engineering Physics, in-depth approach, 1st year | | Toute l'année | | 5 |
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| Master in Engineering Physics, in-depth approach, 1st year | | Second semester | | 5 |
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| Master in Engineering Physics, in-depth approach, 2nd year | | Second semester | | 5 |
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| Master in Engineering Physics, specialized approach, 1st year | | Toute l'année | | 5 |
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| Master in Engineering Physics, specialized approach, 1st year | | Second semester | | 5 |
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| Master in Engineering Physics, specialized approach, 2nd year | | Second semester | | 5 |
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| Holder(s) : | Nicolas Vandewalle |
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| Language : | French language |
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| Course contents : | 1. Introduction
2. Statistics
3. Statistical approach
4. Gibbs measures
5. Ideal gas revisited
6. Fluids
7. Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution
8. Fermi-Dirac distribution
9. Bose-Einstein distribution
10. Phase transitions
11. Spin models
12. Critical phenomena and scale invariance
13. Random walks
14. Percolation |
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| Course objective : | The aim of this lecture is to introduce modern tools of statistical physics and to emphasize their applications : gas, amorphous systems, exotic materials, phase transitions, diffusion, ...
The second objective is to show original experiments to student as well as research projects. |
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| Prerequisites : | The lecture is based on general physics, thermodynamics, quantum mechanics and hamiltonian mechanics. |
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| Workshops : | Exercises and additional examples to illustrate the theory.
Research projects in the lab. |
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| Organization : | Second semester. |
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| Written notes : | PDF files can be found on the website of Prof. Nicolas Vandewalle. |
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| Assessment : | Written/oral examination (65%).
Presentation of the research project (35%). |
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| Contacts : | Nicolas Vandewalle : 04/366.3703, nvandewalle@ulg.ac.be |
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| Remarks : | ... |
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