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Thermal Physics - PHYS2060

Faculty: Faculty of Science

School: School of Physics

Course Outline: http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/

Campus: Sydney

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 3

EFTSL: 0.06250 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2

Enrolment Requirements:

Prerequisite: PHYS1002 or PHYS1022 or PHYS1111 or PHYS1221 or PHYS1231 or PHYS1241, MATH1021 or MATH1131 or MATH1141 or MATH1031; Exclusion: PHYS2210

CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

Kinetic theory of gases, pressure, temperature, work & heat, Laws of thermodynamics, heat engines, Carnot cycle, entropy, Helmholtz & Gibbs functions, phase transitions and diagrams.

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