Overview
Description
Statistical basis of thermodynamics. Applications to fundamental processes; entropy, distribution functions, classical and quantum gases, phase transformations, low temperature phenomena.
Requirements
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall
Terms
fall
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- identify and describe the statistical nature of concepts and laws in thermodynamics, in particular: temperature, entropy, thermodynamic potentials, chemical potential, and partition functions.
- apply the statistical physics methods, such as Boltzmann distribution, Gibbs distribution, and Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein distributions to solve problems in various physical systems.
- use the principles of black-body radiation to analyze radiation phenomena in thermodynamic systems.
- make connections between applications of general statistical theory in various areas of physics.