Thermodynamics and statistical physics

Academic year 2025/2026
Lecturer Giuseppe La Rocca

Examination procedure

<p>oral exam</p>

Examination procedure notes

<p>oral exam</p>

Prerequisites

Course for third year biologists, prerequisites are mathematics and physics courses from previous years


Syllabus

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

Bibliographical references

handouts

Kittel-Kroemer "Thermal physics"