Part 1 (compulsory): Dr Stefano Angioletti-Uberti
16 one-hour lectures and 4 rapid feedback sessions in Term 1
Macroscopic Approach: Thermodynamics
- Elements of (Bulk/Homogeneous) Thermodynamics
- External Constraints, Thermodynamic Potentials and Important Relations
- Free energy and phase behaviour
Microscopic Approach: Statistical Mechanics
- Introduction to statistical mechanics
- Statistical mechanics of simple systems