Physics and Astronomy - Course Details

PHYS416 (PHYS41600)

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.