Prerequisites:
Course Contents
Equilibrium Thermodynamics: Laws of thermodynamics,
the equilibrium state, thermodynamic variables, conjugate quantities, thermodynamic potentials (4)
Statistical Mechanics: Kinetic Theory of gases, Boltzmann distribution,
the ensemble postulate, partition function, canonical ensemble, other ensembles, fluctuations, ideal monatomic, diatomic and polyatomic gases, chemical equilibrium, quantum statistics (20)
Transport Phenomena: Transport coefficients, thermal conductivity, diffusivity, viscosity, ionic conductivity, Limiting law of Debye-Hückel-Onsager, Nernst-Einstein relation, Stokes-Einstein relation (6)
Molecular Reaction Dynamics: Collision theory, activation energy, transition
state theory, reactions as trajectories, molecular beam experiments, reactions in liquid phase, Kramers theory, Diffusion limited reactions (10)
