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PHYS 51500 - Thermal And Statistical Physics


Credit Hours: 3.00. Equilibrium states, the concept of heat, and the laws of thermodynamics; the existence and properties of the entropy; different thermodynamic potentials and their uses; phase diagrams; introduction to statistical mechanics and its relation to thermodynamics; treatment of ideal gases. Typically offered Fall Spring.Credits: 3.00