Course RSS FeedsPHYS51500 (PHYS515) Fall 2008
Thermal and Statistical Physics
Current session: Fall 2008
Offering: Fall, Class 3, cr. 3
Prerequisites: Classical mechanics at the level of PHY310 and Electricity and Magnetism at the level of PHYS 330
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):
CHEN, YONG
Email:
yongchen@purdue.edu
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Textbook(s) for Fall 2008
| Course | Title | Author | Edition | ISBN | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PHYS515 | REQUIRED: Introduction to Modern Statistical Mechanics | David Chandler | 1987 | 0195042778 | Oxford University Press |
| PHYS515 | REQUIRED: Thermal Physics | Kittel & Kroemer | 2nd | 0-7167-1088-9 | Freeman & Co. |
| PHYS515 | RECOMMENDED: Thermal Physics | Ralph Baierlein | 1999 | 0521658381 | Cambridge University Press |
