Theoretical Physics for Materials Science
Wintersemester 2006/2007
Lecture
Tuesday and Thursday, 8:15-9:45, 288 Physik Süd
Exams
first exam: Wednesday, 14 February, 2007, 14:00-16:00, Room 1004HZ
second exam: Friday,
20 April 2007, 10:00-12:00 Room 288 S,
results upon request
third exam:
students who have neither been successful in the first exam nor in the second exam will have
a third possiblility, namely an oral exam in the week from 2 July -- 6 July.
Please contact me to register for the oral exam until 15 June.
Module
Students have succesfully completed the module if either the first or the second exam is passed.
This means, who is successful in the first exam cannot participate in the second exam.
Contents
The covers the following subjects:
- Continuum Mechanics
- Vectors and tensors
- Kinematics
- Balance laws
- Material equations
- Linear elasticity
- Hydrodynamics
- Statistical Mechanics
- Review: Thermodynamics
- Review: Quantum mechanics -- pure states
- Mixed states, statistical entropy, ensembles
- Ideal gases: Classical gas, Fermi gas, Bose gas
- Debye model
- Sommerfeld theory of metals
- Transport Theory
- Master equation and H-Theorem
- Boltzmann equation
- Applications: Electrical conductivity, Diffusion, Einstein relation
Literature
- Stephani, Kluge, Theoretische Mechanik (Spektrum Akademischer Verlag)
- Chandrasekharaiah, Debnath, Continuum Mechanics (Academic Press)
(Continuum mechanics)
- Fliessbach, Statistische Physik
- Chandler, Introduction to Modern Statistical Mechanis (Oxford University Press
peter.schwab@physik.uni-augsburg.de, Oktober 2006
