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2024-2025 Undergraduate Academic Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

PHY 440 - Statistical Mechanics


3 credits
This is an advanced course in the mechanics of large numbers of weakly interacting particles. Emphasis will be placed on Maxwell and Boltzmann’s work on the kinetic theory of gasses.

  3 cr. lab.
Prerequisite(s): Concurrent (or previous) enrollment in PHY 341  and PHY 342  is required.
Term Offered: Rotational basis