Jul 04, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
[Archived Catalog]
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PHYS 3011 - Thermal Physics
First and Second laws of thermodynamics, phase changes, and entropy. Temperature, thermodynamic variables, equations of state, heat engine. Introduction to statistical physics: statistical interpretation of first and second laws of thermodynamics, microcanonical, canonical and grand canonical ensembles, partition functions, classical (Boltzmann) and quantum (Fermi and Bose-Einstein) statistics applied to ideal gas.
Requisites: MATH 3400 and (PHYS 2052 or 2056 and 2057)
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Be able to use concepts of thermodynamics and statistical physics to derive thermal properties of systems of non-interacting components.
- Be familiar with Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein statistics.
- Understand concepts of statistical physics, be familiar with methods of equilibrium statistical mechanics.
- Understand concepts of thermodynamics: extensive and intensive variables, equations of state.
- Understand relationships between thermodynamic potentials.
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