Electromagnetism and Thermal Physics - PHYS2210
Faculty: Faculty of Science
School: School of Physics
Course Outline: http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/
Campus: Kensington Campus
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 5
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: PHYS1221 or PHYS1231 or PHYS1241, and, MATH2011 or MATH2111; Exclusion: PHYS2050, PHYS2060
CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
Static and time-dependent electric and magnetic fields. Electric and magnetic potentials. Materials in electric and magnetic fields. Electromagnetic waves.
Kinetic theory of gases, pressure, temperature, work & heat, Laws of thermodynamics, heat engines, Carnot cycle, entropy, Helmholtz & Gibbs functions, phase transitions and diagrams.
Assumed Knowledge: Completion of first year physics and second year mathematics course on three variable calculus.
Kinetic theory of gases, pressure, temperature, work & heat, Laws of thermodynamics, heat engines, Carnot cycle, entropy, Helmholtz & Gibbs functions, phase transitions and diagrams.
Assumed Knowledge: Completion of first year physics and second year mathematics course on three variable calculus.
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