Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Microstates and macrostates, statistical ensembles, entropy and other thermodynamic functions, equilibrium, variational principles, functional integration methods. Applications: ideal gas, oscillators, rotors, elasticity, paramagnetism. Indistinguishable particles, Fermi/Dirac and Bose/Einstein distributions. Applications: electron gas, neutron stars, white dwarfs, Bose/Einstein condensation. Kinetics. Letter grading.

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Mar 9, 3 PM PST
LEC 1: 27/40 seats taken (Open)
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  • LEC 1

    Open (10 seats)

    TR 12pm-1:50pm

    Physics and Astronomy Building 2434

Course

Instructor
Eric D'Hoker
Previously taught
24S 20W

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