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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
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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):
RITCHIE, KENNETH

Email:
kpritchi@purdue.edu

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