Schedule
Tue-Thu, 10:05 AM - 11:20 AM (8/31/2009 - 12/22/2009) Location: MAIN RO 123
Tue-Thu, 10:05 AM - 11:20 AM (8/31/2009 - 9/11/2009) Location: MAIN RO 123
Description
PHYS 340. THERMODYNAMICS AND STATISTICAL MECHANICS. A study of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics that includes topics such as heat and work; ideal gases; equipartition of energy, entropy, Boltzmann, Fermi-Dirac, and Bose-Einstein distributions; and applications to heat engines, refrigeration, chemical equilibrium, phase transitions, blackbody radiation, and properties of solids. Prerequisites: Physics 234, and 242, or permission of the instructor. Fall semester only, alternate years, three hours.