FYSA2042 Statistinen Fysiikka osa B
FYSA2042 Statistical Physics part B
Luentomateriaali
In Finnish
Luennot salissa FYS3, tai poikkeuksena salissa FYS1
Luentomoniste (pdf)
luentomonisteessa käytettyjä ohjelmia / Codes used in the lecture notes (Python3)
bosemu.py
bosePV.py
bosePT_isobars.py
lane_emden.py
polytr.py
white_dwarf.py
Artikkeleita / Articles
Onsager's reciprocal relations 1931 (pdf)
Miller: verification of Onsager's reciprocal relations 1959 (pdf)
Demot / Demos
Demo assistant: Matti Hellgren
matti.j.k.hellgren@jyu.fi
Demo answers are evaluated from 0 to 10 per demo, and the final score is converted to demo points like this:
If you scored 32 or more, you get the full 16 demo points.
If you scored less, the conversion is 0.50*score.
Only one demo can be returned via email/Moodle/to office before the demo session..
DEMO QUESTIONS:
Tentit / Exams
- Exam 26.4.2023 at 12-16 in YK306 YlistöKem1
- Collection of formulas
- this sheet will be available in exams
In remote exams, well, you have everything available, except answers.
Vanhoja tenttejä / Collection of past exams
Good:
- Good attempts will be rewarded, sometimes generously
- Telling the result makes no sense and why not
- Recognizing an apparent sign error (which you would of course fix later before publishing)
Very bad:
- Messed up units
- Sloppy math manipulations (forget a term at some point, confusion with logarithms or exponentials)
- Non-math rules (usually a shortcut to the given answer, invented in despair)
- A clearly unphysical answer
Materiaalia netissä / External material in the net:
Erinomaisia kirjoja / Excellent books:
- R. Bowley & M. Sanchez: Introductory Statistical Mechanics (lecture notes partly follow this book)
- F. Mandl: Statistical Physics (great read, somewhat easier than BS)
- K. Huang: Introduction to Statistical Physics and a more advanced book, Statistical Mechanics
- L. Reichl: A Modern Course in Statistical Physics (goes far beyond our course)
Download 1998 version at archive.org
Kurssivaatimukset / Requirements:
You get points like this:
| Exam | 75 % | 48 points |
| Demos | 25 % | 16 points |
Passing the course with lowest grade (1) requires 29 points, highest grade (5) requires 58 or more points.
Details:
- 0 - 28 points: fail
- 29 - 38 points: 1
- 39 - 44 points: 2
- 45 - 50 points: 3
- 51 - 57 points: 4
- 58 - 64 points: 5
The lectures and lecture notes are in Finnish, so regretfully you need to study the topics from the book or from the net
by yourself. You will find the demo sessions quite useful!
What to read? Take a look at the book, Bowley and Sanchez pages 128-. The formulas in the lecture notes are universal math :^)
If you fail to collect enough points to pass the course you are welcome to take the exam later on a general exam day at the Department of Physics - if "Statistical Physics part B" is listed as an exam topic.