Physics and Astronomy - Course Details
PHYS515 (PHYS51500)
Offering:
Spring (starting in Spring 2011), Class 3, cr. 3
Prerequisites:
PHYS 310 and 344. Coreq. 360 and 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.
Course Material for Spring 2024