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2013-2014 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
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PHYS 420 - Statistical and Thermal Physics

4 credit hours
A course in advanced classical and statistical thermodynamics. Topics include energy in thermal physics; entropy and the Second Law; engines and refrigerators; free energy and chemical thermodynamics; Boltzmann statistics, quantum statistics, and applications. Prerequisites: PHYS 203, 205, MATH 234.


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