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PHYS41600 (PHYS416) Fall 2008

Thermal and Statistical Physics (Honors)

Current session: Fall 2008

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):
CARLSON, ERICA

Email:
ewcarlson@physics.purdue.edu

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