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Statistical Physics - PHYS3020
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Faculty: Faculty of Science
 
 
School:  School of Physics
 
 
Course Outline: http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 3
 
 
EFTSL: 0.062 (more info)
 
 
Contact Hours per Week: 2
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: PHYS2060 or PHYS2011.
 
 
Excluded: PHYS3021
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Thermodynamic probability, entropy, paramagnetism, canonical distribution, Boltzmann distributions. Open systems, grand canonical ensemble, chemical potential. Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein distributions, Bose condensation. Radiation in a cavity (blackbody radiation). Chemical reactions, phase equilibria. Fluctuations, noise, Nyquist's theorem.

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