Skip to main content

Physics and Astronomy - Course Details


PHYS515: Thermal and Statistical Physics (PAST/FUTURE SEMESTER)

Offering:
Spring (starting in Spring 2011), Class 3, cr. 3


Prerequisites:
PHYS 310 and 344. Coreq. 360 and 330
View Additional Prerequisites


Description:
Equilibrium states, the concept of heat, and the laws of thermodynamics; the existence and properties of the entropy and free energies; different thermodynamic potentials and their uses; phase diagrams and phase transitions; introduction to statistical mechanics and its relation to thermodynamics; treatment of ideal gases.


Instructor(s):
Rodriguez, Jorge


Email:
jhrodrig@purdue.edu


Textbook(s) for Spring 2017

Title Author Edition ISBN Publisher Req/Opt Notes
Thermal Physics Kittel & Kroemer 2nd 978-0716710882 Freeman & Co. Required
Introduction to Statistical Physics Kerson Huang 2nd 978-1420079029 CRC Press Optional
Thermodynamics Enrico Fermi 1 st 978-0486603612 Dover Publications Optional

Course Admin
Last Updated: May 9, 2023 8:43 AM

Department of Physics and Astronomy, 525 Northwestern Avenue, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2036 • Phone: (765) 494-3000 • Fax: (765) 494-0706

Copyright © 2023 Purdue University | An equal access/equal opportunity university | Copyright Complaints

Trouble with this page? Disability-related accessibility issue? Please contact the College of Science.