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2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

PHYS 51500 - Thermal and Statistical Physics


Equilibrium states, the concept of heat, and the laws of thermodynamics; the existence and properties of the entropy; different thermodynamic potentials and their uses; phase diagrams; introduction to statistical mechanics and its relation to thermodynamics; treatment of ideal gases.

Preparation for Course
P: PHYS 31000, 33000 and a course in differential equations or advanced calculus.

Cr. 3.
Dual Level Course
Undergraduate-Graduate