Prerequisites: MATH 010B, PHYS 040A, PHYS 040B, PHYS 040C, PHYS 040D, PHYS 040E
Description: Macroscopic properties of many-particle systems. Laws and applications of thermodynamics: entropy, thermodynamic potentials, ideal gases. Principles and applications of statistical mechanics: probability distributions; canonical, microcanonical, and grand canonical ensembles; specific heat of solids; paramagnetism; kinetic theory of gases; phase transitions; quantum statistics.