COURSE INTRODUCTION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

Course Name
Statistical Physics
Code
Semester
Theory
(hour/week)
Application/Lab
(hour/week)
Local Credits
ECTS
PHYS 305
Fall/Spring
2
2
3
5
Prerequisites
None
Course Language
English
Course Type
Elective
Course Level
First Cycle
Mode of Delivery -
Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturer(s)
Assistant(s) -
Course Objectives Aim of this course is to understand many thermal phenomena that met in daily life with the help of probabilistic methods.
Learning Outcomes The students who succeeded in this course;
  • Proficient in using statistical methods to understand macroscopic events.
  • Able to comment how real systems different with respect to its ideal counterparts.
  • Able to use quantum statistical methods to explain inherintly quantum macroscopic systems.
  • Capable to evaluate real quantum system with the help of interactions in micro level.
Course Description After a review of thermodynamics, use of statistical methods both in classical and quantum system will be studied under the critical view of interactions effects.
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Course Category

 Core Courses
Major Area Courses
X
Supportive Courses
Media and Managment Skills Courses
Transferable Skill Courses

 

WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES

Week Subjects Required Materials
1 Energy in thermal physics, 1st law of thermodynamics. An introduction to thermal physics Daniel Schroeder Ch. 1
2 The law of large numbers, applications An introduction to thermal physics Daniel Schroeder Ch. 2
3 2nd Law of thermodynamics An introduction to thermal physics Daniel Schroeder Ch. 2
4 Temperature, heat, entropy An introduction to thermal physics Daniel Schroeder Ch. 3
5 Macroscopic implications of interactions among particles. An introduction to thermal physics Daniel Schroeder Ch. 3
6 Heat engines, refrigerators and real counterparts. An introduction to thermal physics Daniel Schroeder Ch. 4
7 Free energy, phase transitions. An introduction to thermal physics Daniel Schroeder Ch. 5
8 Review An introduction to thermal physics Daniel Schroeder Ch. 1-5
9 Boltzman Statistics. An introduction to thermal physics Daniel Schroeder Ch. 6
10 Maxwell velocity distribution and ideal gas law revisited. An introduction to thermal physics Daniel Schroeder Ch. 6
11 Quantum Statistic. An introduction to thermal physics Daniel Schroeder Ch. 7
12 Fermions, Bosons and the systems they are in. An introduction to thermal physics Daniel Schroeder Ch. 7
13 Fermi gas, blackbody radiation, Bose Einstein condensation. An introduction to thermal physics Daniel Schroeder Ch. 7
14 İnteracting many body systems An introduction to thermal physics Daniel Schroeder Ch. 8
15 General Review An introduction to thermal physics Daniel Schroeder Ch. 1-8
16 Final Exam
Course Notes/Textbooks

An introduction to thermal physics Daniel Schroeder 
Suggested Readings/Materials

A modern course in statistical physics.

 

EVALUATION SYSTEM

Semester Activities Number Weigthing
Participation
1
10
Laboratory / Application
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments
5
10
Presentation / Jury
Project
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exam
Midterm
2
40
Final Exam
1
40
Total

Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade
8
60
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade
1
40
Total

ECTS / WORKLOAD TABLE

Semester Activities Number Duration (Hours) Workload
Course Hours
(Including exam week: 16 x total hours)
16
2
32
Laboratory / Application Hours
(Including exam week: 16 x total hours)
16
2
Study Hours Out of Class
1
36
36
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments
2
Presentation / Jury
Project
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exam
Midterms
2
20
Final Exams
1
10
    Total
150

 

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS RELATIONSHIP

#
 Program Competencies/Outcomes
* Contribution Level
1
2
3
4
5
1

To be able master and use fundamental phenomenological and applied physical laws and applications,

 X
2

To be able to identify the problems, analyze them and produce solutions based on scientific method,

 X
3

To be able to collect necessary knowledge, able to model and self-improve in almost any area where physics is applicable and able to criticize and reestablish his/her developed models and solutions,

 X
4

To be able to communicate his/her theoretical and technical knowledge both in detail to the experts and in a simple and understandable manner to the non-experts comfortably,

 X
5

To be familiar with software used in area of physics extensively and able to actively use at least one of the advanced level programs in European Computer Usage License,

 X
6

To be able to develop and apply projects in accordance with sensitivities of society and behave according to societies, scientific and ethical values in every stage of the project that he/she is part in,
7

To be able to evaluate every all stages effectively bestowed with universal knowledge and consciousness and has the necessary consciousness in the subject of quality governance,
8

To be able to master abstract ideas, to be able to connect with concreate events and carry out solutions, devising experiments and collecting data, to be able to analyze and comment the results,

 X
9

To be able to refresh his/her gained knowledge and capabilities lifelong, have the consciousness to learn in his/her whole life,

 X
10

To be able to conduct a study both solo and in a group, to be effective actively in every all stages of independent study, join in decision making stage, able to plan and conduct using time effectively.

 X
11

To be able to collect data in the areas of Physics and communicate with colleagues in a foreign language ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B1).

 X
12

To be able to speak a second foreign at a medium level of fluency efficiently
13

To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise.

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