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UNIWERSITY OF WARSAW

1 Pasteura Str., 02-093 Warsaw, Poland, phone: +48 (0)22 822 02 11

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Subject

Statistical Thermodynamics


No / course unit code


Semester

6

Type of course

Lecture


Teaching hours
 per semester    per week

30            2

ECTS credits

2


Lecturer:

Prof. dr hab. Bogumił Jeziorski
Room: 504    Phone extn.: 209    email: jeziorski@chem.uw.edu.pl

Teaching Division:

Theoretical Chemistry and Crystallography

Educational and
professional goals:

Acquiring the skill of using the statistical model to calculate thermodynamic functions (entropy, free energy, etc.) for specific chemical systems, to study chemical equilibria and to estimate rates of chemical reactions. Another, equally important objective of the course is to show students how the statistical model enables us to understand the laws of thermodynamics and the relation between the properties of individual molecules and properties of matter in the bulk.

Course description:

1. Phenomenological and statistical description of macroscopic systems, quantum mechanical definition of microstate, density of states, statistical definition of temperature and entropy.
2. Properties of the entropy and statistical interpretation of the II law of thermodynamics, thermodynamic functions of the ideal gas.
3. Canonical ensemble for a macro- and microscopic system, statistical sum and its relation to thermodynamic functions.
4. Effect of rotation, vibration, electronic excitation, internal rotation, and nuclear spin on thermodynamic functions of gases, residual entropy and statistical thermodynamics of atomic crystals.
5. Application of statistical method to study chemical equilibria and rates of chemical reactions.
6. Grand canonical ensemble, fluctuation of the number of particles in open systems, Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac statistics and their simplest applications.
7. Statistical sum in the classical limit and its calculation for non-ideal gas, virial expansion of the equation of state, van der Waals equation.
8. Classical Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulations.

Required background:


Physical Chemistry I, Basic Quantum Chemistry, Basic Spectroscopy.

Form of assessment:

Written exam

Remarks:

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