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2021-2022 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2021-2022 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

PHY 441 - Statistic Thermodynamics

Credits 3
Lecture / 3 hours per week
Requirements: Prerequisite: PHY 213; Pre or Co-Requisite:PHY 341; or permission of instructor
The laws of thermodynamics and their interpretation based on the microscopic behavior. Entropy and probability, equilibrium, reversibility, thermodynamic functions, phase changes, and quantum statistics are studied. Applications to problems in solid state physics are examined. Cross-listed with PHY 543
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