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| FIZ5180 | Statistical Mechanics | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | Second Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of PHYSICS | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Ahmet Hakan YILMAZ | | Co-Lecturer | | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | The goal of the course is to provide an introduction to statistical mechanics. |
| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | Describe the role of statistical concepts in understanding macroscopic systems;
| 1 - 2 - 3 | 1 | | PO - 2 : | Deduce the equation of state and entropy for an ideal gas | 1 - 2 - 3 | 1 | | PO - 3 : | Deduce the Boltzmann distribution for the probability of finding a system in a particular quantum state; | 1 - 2 - 3 | 1 | | PO - 4 : | Deduce the Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein distributions. | 1 - 2 - 3 | 1 | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), PO : Learning Outcome | | |
| Basic methods and results of statistical mechanics. Simple applications of statistical mechanics. Equilibrium between phases or chemical species. Quantum statistics of ideal gases. System of interacting particles. Elementary kinetic theory of transport processes. Transport theory using the relaxation time approximation. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | review of statistical physics and thermodinamics | | | Week 2 | Basic methods and results of statistical mechanics | | | Week 3 | Simple applications of statistical mechanics | | | Week 4 | continue | | | Week 5 | Equilibrium between phases or chemical species | | | Week 6 | continue | | | Week 7 | first exam | | | Week 8 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 9 | Elementary kinetic theory of transport processes | | | Week 10 | Transport theory using the relaxation time approximation | | | Week 11 | continue | | | Week 12 | second exam | | | Week 13 | quantum statistics | | | Week 14 | continue | | | Week 15 | Ideal Fermi and Bose gases | | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | | |
| 1 | Yılmaz A.H.,Lecture Notes | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 8 | | 2 | 30 | | In-term studies (second mid-term exam) | 12 | | 2 | 20 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | | 2 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 22 | 1 | 22 | | Arasınav | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Ödev | 15 | 5 | 75 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 20 | 1 | 20 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Diğer 1 | 20 | 1 | 20 | | Total work load | | | 225 |
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