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Direction of Time and
Foundations of Statistical Physics
Wed 16:00-17:30 Room
i/224
Lecturers: Márton Gömöri and László
E Szabó
Language: English
Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89872357445?pwd=UVE5b1BEV0Y0K2hKVkNoZVNxODhrZz09
Codes:
BMI-LOTD-611E.01
BMA-LOTD-611.01
The aim of this
course is to provide an introduction to the
conceptual foundations of statistical physics
and survey its main philosophical problems.
The course will touch on the following
topics:
- The problem of
irreversibility and the direction of time
- Bolztmann’s
approach and the H-theorem
- Gibbs’s approach
- Probability and
typicality
- Indeterminism,
randomness, chaos
- Reduction and
emergence
Grading criteria,
specific requirements:
Oral exam from the material of the lectures.
Prerequisites: knowledge of
basic mathematics is beneficial.
Readings:
The video records and the slides and
other pdf materials of the lectures will be
available for preparation to the exam.
Suggested reading:
Huw
Price: Time's Arrow
and Archimedes' Point : New Directions for
the Physics of Time, Oxford Univ.
Press, 1996.
Lawrence Sklar: Physics and Chance:
Philosophical Issues in the Foundations of
Statistical Mechanics, Cambridge: CUP 1993.
Hemmo, M. and Shenker,
O.R.: The
Road to Maxwell's Demon: Conceptual Foundations
of Statistical Mechanics, Cambridge: CUP 2012.
2021-05-08
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Records and slides
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LÁSZLÓ E. SZABÓ
