PHY 2083 creditsPrereq: Pre-Requisite: PHY 108 or PHY 118 .
PHY 208: General Physics IV
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- Examines thermodynamics, including temperature, zeroth law, thermal expansion, specific heat, first law, second law, entropy, third law, kinetic theory, Brownian motion, and the ideal gas. Also explores special relativity, including historical background, Lorentz transformations, length contraction, time dilation, invariance of the laws of physics, relativistic dynamics and kinematics, and paradoxes.
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- Doreen Wackeroth
- Francis Gasparini
- Ulrich Baur
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