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, alternate years, three hours.