Week 1 Flashcards
What is the definition of a phase?
What is a phase in macro- and microscopic scale?
What are the three types of important points of phase diagrams?
What are the Free Energy, Enthalpie and Gibbs free energy equations?
What does thermodynamic potential mean?
What is a phase transition?
What are the two orders of phase transitions?
What is a discontinuous phase transition?
What are continuous phase transitions? What are critical phenomena?
What are the Ehrenfest classification of phase transitions?
What are Paramagnetic and Ferromagnetic materials?
How is the magnetism modeled?
What is the Heisenberg model?
What is the Ising model? How does it work?
How is the state probability modeled in the Ising model?
What is the partition function of the Ising model? How is the Free Energy modeled?
What is the formula of the Poisson process?
How is the Poisson process distributed for a very short time dt?
What is the exponential distribution?
What is statistical mechanics?
What are macroscopic observables? What is their expectation?
What is Gibbs postulate?
What is the total magnetization per spin?
What is the formula for average energy in the system? What is the formula for total magnesiumtisation?
What is Macroscopic irreversibility?
What is the 2nd postulate of thermodynamics?
What is entropy?
What is Boltzman entropy?
What is the formula for Shannon entropy?
What does the Shannon entropy imply? (What does its maximum mean? What does the minimum mean?)
What is the Shannon entropy for an isolated system?
What is the formula for the Boltzman distribution? What is it used for?
What does the Boltzman distribution imply? i.e., what does it mean for the likelyhood of situations with the same or less energy?
What is the minimal energy in an Ising model?
What is the statistical description of Free Energy? And how is it derived?
What are the interesting quantities of an Ising model (that is more generalized)?
