Thermal Physics I

4 credits

Fundamentals of thermodynamics and statistical physics; entropy, laws of thermodynamics, heat engines, free energy, phase transitions, Boltzmann statistics, quantum statistics. [4-0-0] Prerequisite: One of PHYS_V 102, PHYS_V 108, PHYS_V 118, PHYS_V 153, PHYS_V 158, SCIE_V 001. Corequisite: One of MATH_V 200, MATH_V 217, MATH_V 226, MATH_V 253, MATH_V 254, MATH_O 200.