Transcription of Thermodynamics & Statistical Mechanics
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Thermodynamics & Statistical Mechanics : An intermediate level course Richard Fitzpatrick Associate Professor of Physics The University of Texas at Austin 1 INTRODUCTION. 1 Introduction Intended audience These lecture notes outline a single semester course intended for upper division undergraduates. Major sources The textbooks which I have consulted most frequently whilst developing course material are: Fundamentals of Statistical and thermal physics: F. Reif (McGraw-Hill, New York NY, 1965). Introduction to quantum theory: D. Park, 3rd Edition (McGraw-Hill, New York NY, 1992). Why study Thermodynamics ? Thermodynamics is essentially the study of the internal motions of many body systems. Virtually all substances which we encounter in everyday life are many body systems of some sort or other ( , solids, liquids, gases, and light). Not surprisingly, therefore, Thermodynamics is a discipline with an exceptionally wide range of applicability. Thermodynamics is certainly the most ubiquitous subfield of Physics outside Physics Departments.
1.8 Thermodynamics and statistical thermodynamics In this course, we are going to develop some machinery for interrelating the sta-tistical properties of a system containing a very large number of particles, via a statistical treatment of the laws of …
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