PHYS3750-01.Thermodynamcs & Stat.Mechanics.F13.Gold,Benjamin

Benjamin Gold

Document Type

Syllabi

School

CLA

Department

PHYS

Course Subject

PHYS

Course Number

3750

Course Section

01

Course Title

Thermodynamcs & Stat.Mechanics

Academic Term and Year

Fall 2013

Credits

4.00

Area of Study

PHYS

Course Description

Goals: To develop a fundamental understanding of the principles of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics that allows a variety of applications to be surveyed in the latter part of the course. Content: The laws of thermodynamics and other conventional thermodynamic concepts such as heat, work, entropy, enthalpy, heat capacity, and the equipartition theorem are introduced. Adiabatic, isothermal, isobaric, and nonequilibrium processes are studied. Topics include the equations of state for non-ideal gases, Maxwell's relations, kinetic theory, the Maxwell distribution of molecular velocities, magnetic materials, blackbody radiation, phase transitions, phase diagrams, ensembles, and the partition function. Classical and quantum statistics are studied; the Maxwell-Boltzmann, Bose-Einstein, and Fermi-Dirac distributions are examined. Taught: Alternate years, fall term. Prerequisites: PHYS 1240 or PHYS 1160 and MATH 3720 or coregistration.

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