Thermodynamics and statistical physics
Prerequisites
Course for third year biologists, prerequisites are mathematics and physics courses from previous years
Programme
thermodynamic systems, equilibrium states, entropy, temperature, pressure, chemical potential, thermodynamic transformations, heat and work, thermodynamic potentials, Boltzmann distribution, classical ideal gas, grancanonical distribution, quantum statistics, kinetic theory, transport processes, Brownian motion
Educational aims
Becoming familiar with the basic concepts of thermodynamics and statistical physics
Bibliographical references
handouts
Kittel-Kroemer "Thermal physics"