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Capstone: Statistical Physics

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PH 441/541 CAPSTONES IN PHYSICS: THERMAL AND STATISTICAL PHYSICS (3 credits)
Entropy and quantum mechanics; canonical Gibbs probability; ideal gas; thermal radiation; Einstein and Debye lattices; grand canonical Gibbs probability; ideal Fermi and Bose gases; chemical reactions and phase transformations. PREREQ: PH 423/PH 523, PH 451/PH 551.
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