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2011-2012 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2011-2012 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

PHY 641 - Statistical Mechanics

3 credits
Prerequisites: PHY 213 or equivalent
Thermodynamics and its statistical interpretation. Canonical, micro-canonical, and grand canonical ensembles. Boltzmann, Fermi, and Bose distributions, and their applications to equilibrium and transport phenomena. Phase equilibrium is also studied.