PHYSICS 363.01, Spring 2015

Course TitleTHERMAL PHYSICS  
Class Time/Room MW 01:25 PM-02:40 PM Bio Sci 130
Instructor(s) Finkelstein, Gleb
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Course DescriptionThermal properties of matter treated using the basic concepts of entropy, temperature, chemical potential, partition function, and free energy. Topics include the laws of thermodynamics, ideal gases, thermal radiation and electrical noise, heat engines, Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein distributions, semiconductor statistics, kinetic theory, and phase transformations. Also taught as Electrical and Computer Engineering 311. Pre-requisite: Physics 264L. Instructor: Finkelstein