CY60103: Statistical Mechanics For Chemists
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| Course name | Statistical Mechanics For Chemists | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Offered by | Chemistry | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Credits | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| L-T-P | 3-0-0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Semester | Autumn | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Prerequisite : CY40102Topics in advanced classical and quantum statistical mechanics: equilibrium properties of systems of interacting molecules with applications to ideal Fermi and Bose gases, simple solids, dense fluids and aqueous solutions.Phase Transition: mean field approaches, critical fluctuations and scaling, application to condensation, polymers and liquid crystals.Strong electroytes: Debye-Huckel theory.Time dependent phenomena and statistical mechanics: time correlation functions, introduction to scattering and time-dependent molecular spectroscopy, transport coefficients.Books: Basic Concepts for Simple and Complex Liquids by J.L. Barrat and J.P. Hansen (Cambridge, 2003); Statistical Mechanics by D.A. McQuarrie (Viva, 2003); Introduction to Statistical Mechanics, D. Chandler (Oxford University Press, 1987).
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| Day | 8:00-8:55 am | 9:00-9:55 am | 10:00-10:55 am | 11:00-11:55 am | 12:00-12:55 pm | 2:00-2:55 pm | 3:00-3:55 pm | 4:00-4:55 pm | 5:00-5:55 pm | |
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| Friday | C306 |