Foundations and applications of equilibrium thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, supplemented by an elementary theory of transport phenomena

The Computer Lab offers an introduction to the programming language Matlab (TM), to practical mathematics, computational materials science, the physics of complex fluids, and to nonequilibrium thermodynamics by solving selected problems.

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Foundations of nonequilbrium statistical mechanics based on a unified approach, including projection-operator method, linear response theory, fluctuation-dissipation theorem, kinetic theory of gases, Boltzmann's equation, Chapman-Enskog Method, Grad's Moment Expansion, kinetic theory of polymeric liquids, simulation techniques (Monte Carlo, Brownian dynamics, molecular dynamics)

Foundations of nonequilbrium thermodynamics based on a unified approach, including hydrodynamics, linear irreversible thermodynamics and the theory of complex fluids

Physical foundations of single polymer molecules and interacting chains.

Independent study of selected topics in statistical thermodynamics (small projects with presentations)

Foundations and applications of equilibrium thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, supplemented by an elementary theory of transport phenomena.