PPT Slide
- studies phenomena where temperature and/or heat are important.
- studies systems with large number of particles (or degrees of freedom).
- a mixture of: - basic statistical physics, thermodynamics and kinetic theory.
to describe macroscopic parameters of matter in different (sometimes extreme) conditions and relations among them starting from microscopic models and principles of mechanics or quantum mechanics.
ex. macroscopic parameters: P (pressure), T (temperature), U (internal energy), V (volume), M (mass) etc...
microscopic parameters: vxi (velocity components of molecule i), <v> (average velocity of molecules), m (mass of molecules) etc…
phenomenological equations of thermodynamics, algebra, combinatorics, probability theory, mechanics
supefluidity, superconductivity, Bose-Einstein condensation, phase-transitions and critical phenomena, low temperature physics etc...