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| 0321-2111-01 | Thermal Physics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Course description
Thermal Physics
- Enumeration of States and the Multiplicity function, Binary Alloy System, Sharpness of the Multiplicity function
- Entropy Temperature and the fundamental assumption, Thermal Equilibrium, Reversible and irreversible processes, Laws of Thermodynamics
- Boltzmann Factor, Distribution function, Pressure, Helmholtz Free Energy, Calculation of Helmholtz Free Energy from the Distribution function, Classical Ideal gas
- Thermal Radiation and Planck Distribution, Phonons in Solids: Debye Theory
- Chemical Potential and Gibbs Distribution, Mixing Entropy
- Quantum ideal gas, Fermions and Bosons, Degenerate quantum gasses, Single particle density of States, Fermi Energy, properties of Bose and Fermi Gasses, Metals, White Dwarfs, Bose Einstein condensation.
- Heat and Work, Heat pumps and Engines, Conservation of Heat into Work, Carnot Cycles
- Thermodynamic potentials, Maxwell relations
- First order Phase transitions, Derivation of coexistence curves, Clausius-Clapeyron equation, Van Der Waals Equation of states, Gas Liquefaction by the Joule- Thomson Effect
- Kinetic Theory, Transport Processes, Boltzmann transport equation.