This course consists of four projects that must be completed before you may attend the exam. The projects have several aims:
- To provide experience with developing various codes relevant for problems in Statistical Physics
- To use the codes to develop intuition for some of the main concepts in Statistical Physics
- To learn how to measure statistical properties in simulations with many particles
- To provide a deeper insight into the role of fluctuations, finite size effects, and scaling concepts used in modern statistical physics.
The lectures will support the various projects, and will therefore vary from more theoretical when addressing percolation, to more practical when addressing atomic modeling.
Project 1: Atomic Modeling of Argon
Flow in porous media textbook (Relvant Ch:4,6,7)
Project 2: Advanced Atomic Modeling
Percolation textbook (Curriculum: Ch. 1,2,4,5,6,8, and 11 or 13.)
Project 3: Percolation
(Python versions of the percolation walk scripts are located here: exwalk.py, walk.py, exflow.py)
Project 4: Final Project