PHYS 3341 - Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics

(PBS)

Fall. 4 credits.

Prerequisites: PHYS 2214/PHYS 2218, PHYS 3316, and MATH 2940/MATH 2210/MATH 2230/MATH 2310.

R. Thorne.

Covers statistical physics, developing both thermodynamics and statistical mechanics simultaneously. Also covers concepts of temperature, laws of thermodynamics, entropy, thermodynamic relations, and free energy. Applications to phase equilibrium, multicomponent systems, chemical reactions, and thermodynamic cycles. Application of statistical mechanics to physical systems, and introduction to treatment of Maxwell-Boltzmann, Bose-Einstein, and Fermi-Dirac statistics with applications. Elementary transport theory. At the level of Fundamentals of Statistical and Thermal Physics by Reif.