2024-2025 Undergraduate Course Catalog 
    
    Jan 18, 2025  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Course Catalog

PHY 531 - Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

College of Arts and Sciences
3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
Laws of thermodynamics, temperature, work, heat. Thermodynamic potentials and methods. Application to special systems, low-temperature physics. Classical statistical mechanics. Quantum statistics. Connections between thermodynamics and statistical mechanics.
PREREQ PHY 361 
Shared Competencies Critical and Creative Thinking; Scientific Inquiry and Research Skills