Course Synopses

Prerequisites: 01:750:227 or 272 or permission of the instructor; 01:640:CALC3. Only offered in spring semesters.

This course is required for all B.S. physics and astrophysics majors and can be an elective for other majors and minors, as well as well-prepared students.  All our majors, and prospective majors, are encouraged to meet at least once a semester with the Undergraduate Program Director This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. At this advising meeting, you can discuss special permission to take this course. 

Principles of thermodynamics with physical and chemical applications: energy, entropy, and temperature, the three laws of thermodynamics, cycles, open systems, critical phenomena, chemical equilibrium, ideal gas reactions, phase rule, phase diagrams, kinetic theory, introduction to statistical mechanics.