Standard Course Syllabus
Physics 3180
Thermal Physics  

Date Approved:  26 March 2001

Offered: Spring Semester annually.

 Prerequisites for this Course: Physics 2220.

 This course is a prerequisite for: None.

 Credit Hours: Three.  Three hours of lecture per week.

 Example Text: AAn Introduction to Thermal Physics@ by Schroeder

 Topics Covered: Heat and work.  Ideal gases.  Equipartition of energy. Entropy.  Boltzmann, Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein statistics.  Heat engines and refrigeration.  Chemical reactions.  Phase transitions.  Blackbody radiation.

 Skills Emphasized: General problem solving.  Relating thermal physics to Areal world@ applications.