Study Programmes 2015-2016
| PHYS0203-2 | ||
| Statistical physics | ||
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Duration :
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| 30h Th, 10h Pr, 20h Mon. WS | ||
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Number of credits :
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Lecturer :
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| Nicolas Vandewalle | ||
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language | ||
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the second semester | ||
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Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
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| Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program | ||
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Course contents :
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| 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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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| 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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Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
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| The lecture is based on general physics, thermodynamics, quantum mechanics and hamiltonian mechanics. | ||
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| Exercises and additional examples to illustrate the theory. Research projects in the lab. | ||
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Second semester. | ||
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Recommended or required readings :
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| PDF files can be found on the website of Prof. Nicolas Vandewalle. | ||
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Written/oral examination (65%). Presentation of the research project (35%). | ||
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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| ... | ||
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Contacts :
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| Nicolas Vandewalle : 04/366.3703, nvandewalle@ulg.ac.be | ||
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Items online :
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 | diapositives diapositives en pdf sur le site web du professeur Vandewalle |
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