PHYS 4050 - Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics

Course last offered	:	Fall 2023/24
Instructor(s)	:	LEI Shiming
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