PHYS 4050 - Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics

Course last offered 

 :   

Fall 2018/19

Instructor(s)

 :

CHEUNG Sai Kit

No. of credits

 :

3



Teaching Pattern

  • Duration of course: about 13 weeks

  • Lecture hour(s) / tutorial hour(s) / laboratory hour(s) per week: 3 / 1 / 0

 

Content

  • Laws of thermodynamics, entropy, thermodynamic relations, free energy
  • Elementary statistical mechanics: Maxwell-Boltzmann, Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac statistics
  • Elementary transport theory
  • Applications to physical systems

 

Remarks

  • Prerequisite: PHYS 2022