ESE batch 6 students
CHE502 Chemical and Statistical Thermodynamics
via ZOOM*
--> read Aj. Michael's e-mail to all students to find out how to connect <--
students meet in room ???? in the ESE building
on Tuesdays, 14.00h - 17.00h vistec time (08.00h - 11.00h Europe time)
starting Nov. 17, 2020
2nd session Nov. 24
III session Dec. 1
IV session Dec. 8
V session Dec. 10 (Thursday)
VI session Dec. 15
Exam Dec 21
The classes will be essentially structured as follows:
(1) Michael and/or Philippe will give a short introduction to a topic
(2) - Students will be given a reading assignment until the following week
- Students will prepare a list of questions to
be discussed
- We will prepare lecture notes (pdf file, see below) for each topic
(see also the lecture notes from previous years
here)
(3) The following session will start with a general discussion
(4) Back to (1)
(I) Introduction, Concepts
(II) Topic 1: The molecular view, radiation and energies
additional material http://theo.ism.u-bordeaux.fr/PBopp/vistec2019.2/lecture2019.1.pdf
homework
(III) Topic 2: Quantum Mechanics
homework (read about the basic ideas of quantum mechanics)
---------> interactive examples
see also functions and vectors
--> Quantum mechanics: The latest on Copenhagen, Einstein, Feynman and the others (Physics World Dec. 2020)
(IV) Topic 3: Interactions, PES
(V) Topic 4: Computational aspects, fitting, minimizations, random numbers
--> Ockham (Occam), fitting ..... (from Carnegie Mellon University)
(VI) Topic 5: The basic concepts of statistical mechanics
(thermodynamics)
additional material http://theo.ism.u-bordeaux.fr/PBopp/vistec.2019.1/lecture.all.part1.pdf
relevant pages from link above
--> A very short summary
--> Names and Times
--> A few concepts you should master and
things you should know at the end
older links
and then we'll be able to move on to the
CHE501 (work in progress) course in spring
(scheduled in the weeks from Jan. 25 to Feb 5, 2021 every afternoon)
* Aj. Michael will be teaching from his home or office in Innsbruck, Austria
Aj. Philippe will be teaching from his home in Pessac, France
updated Dec 22 2020, 16.15h