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Thermal and Statistical Physics (Honors)

Current session:

Fall 2009

Offering:

Fall, Class 4, cr. 4

Prerequisites:

Admission by special permission

Description:

Thermal equililbrium, first, second and third laws of thermodynamics. Entropy. Statistical concepts of thermal physics. Microcanonical and canonical ensembles. Classical and quantum ideal gases. Chemical reactions, phase equilibria and critical phenomena.

Instructor(s):

SAVIKHIN, SERGEI

Email:

sergei@physics.purdue.edu

Location

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Textbook(s) for Fall 2009

Textbooks for Fall 2009
Course Title Author Edition ISBN Publisher
PHYS416 Thermal Physics   Charles Kittel  2nd (March 1980)  0716710889  W.H. Freeman