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Graduate Record 2017-2018 
    
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Graduate Record 2017-2018 [ARCHIVED RECORD]

PHYS 5420 - Statistical Mechanics II

Discusses thermodynamics and kinetic theory, and the development of the microcanonical, canonical, and grand canonical ensembles. Includes Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac distributions, techniques for handling interacting many-particle systems, and extensive applications to physical problems. Prerequisite: PHYS 3310, PHYS 3650 and Instructor Permission.



Credits: 3