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PHYS 346.00 Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics 6 credits

Open: Size: 24, Registered: 17, Waitlist: 0

Anderson Hall 223

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11:10am12:20pm11:10am12:20pm12:00pm1:00pm
Synonym: 55409

Arjendu Pattanayak

The fundamentals of classical thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. Topics include the laws of thermodynamics; heat engines and refrigerators; the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution; the various canonical distributions; the statistical concepts of temperature and entropy; Fermi-Dirac, and Bose-Einstein distributions with applications to black-body radiation, phonons, and electrons in solids; the Ising model; and an introduction to critical phenomena.

Prerequisite: Physics 228

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