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2024-2025 Academic Catalog

PY 446 - Thermal Physics


Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Credit Hours: 3

A study of large-scale systems consisting of many atoms or molecules, providing an introduction to the subjects of statistical mechanics, kinetic theory, entropy, Fermi and Bose gases, the partition function, thermodynamics, semiconductor statistics, cryogenics and other selected topics. Prerequisite(s): PY 335.