Awaiting human review
AI-drafted
Outline
- Ideal gas
- Interacting systems
- Thermodynamic surfaces (ideal gas and real systems)
- Mean field approach
- Van der Walls equation of state
- The critical point
- Magnet-fluid analogy
Scope
- To analyse the effect of interactions on a fluid with an approximate method (mean field approach) and discover that the interaction among constituents in the system can lead to emergent phenomena such as phase transitions and critical points;
- to investigate the analogies between magnetic systems and other complex systems as a first touch with universality in phase transitions