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May 12, 2024
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PHYS 5011 - Thermal Physics
First and Second laws of thermodynamics, phase changes, and entropy. Temperature, thermodynamic variables, equations of state, heat engine. Introduction to statistical physics: statistical interpretation of first and second laws of thermodynamics, microcanonical, canonical and grand canonical ensembles, partition functions, classical (Boltzmann) and quantum (Fermi and Bose-Einstein) statistics applied to ideal gas.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- be able to use concepts of thermodynamics and statistical physics to derive thermal properties of model systems of non-interacting particles from their statistical description
- be familiar with quantum Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein statistics;
- understand concepts of statistical physics, be familiar with methods of equlibrium statistical mechanics
- understand concepts of thermodynamics: extensive versus intensive variables, equations of state
- understand the relationship between various thermodynamic potentials;
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