SUBJECT
Title
Supplemental Chapters to Physical Chemistry
Type of instruction
lecture
Level
Master
Faculty
Part of degree program
Credits
2
Recommended in
Semester 1
Typically offered in
Autumn semester
Course description
Chapters not or only superficially covered by the Physical chemistry BSc courses 1-2. (e.g. Axiomatic thermodynamics, nonequilibrium thermodynamics and transport processes, thermodynamics for engineers, basics of hydrodynamics and rheology, introduction to solid state physics, liquid crystals, quasi-crystals, glasses, introduction to the theory of chaos and fractals, information theory.
Readings
Compulsory:
- Lecture notes
Suggested:
- D.J. Evans, G.P. Morris, Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (Academic Press, London, 1989)
- M.J. Allen D.J. Tildesley, Computer simulation of liquids (Academic Press, london, 1986)
- J.P Hansen and I.R. McDonald, Theory of simple liquids (Academic Press, London, 1986)