PHY 4053 creditsPrereq: Pre-Requisite: MTH 306 , PHY 208 , PHY 301 .
PHY 405: Thermal and Statistical Physics I
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- Explores statistics and statistical description of particles; statistical and macroscopic thermodynamics; basic results of classical statistical mechanics and connections with thermodynamics; microcanonical, canonical, and grand canonical ensembles; applications to ideal gases, paramagnets, and lattice vibrations; kinetic theory; and phase equilibrium of one-component systems.
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- Berni Weinstein
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