Nov 21, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Bulletin
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PHYS 344 - Statistical Thermodynamics


2023-2024 Catalog Year

Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0


An introduction , covering the connection between the physics of single particles and the bulk behavior of materials; the quantitative study of entropy, heat, temperature, the Carnot cycle, free energy, thermodynamic potential, phase equilibria, and the laws of thermodynamics. Thermodynamic systems, such as ideal gases and free electrons in metals, are considered.

Prerequisite(s): PHYS 224 , PHYS 228  and MATH 326 .
Offered: Every Spring Semester






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