PHYS 334 - Thermal Physics

4 Credits

1 Units

Unified treatment of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. Topics include laws of thermodynamics, state functions and variables, application to physical and chemical systems, kinetic theory, distribution functions, Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein statistics, black-body radiation, and Debye theory of specific heats.

Prerequisite: PHYS 111 and PHYS 112 and MATH 211 or permission of instructor.
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