UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS

Stephen R. Addison - Department of Physics and Astronomy

Thermal Physics

Here are some resources for my course in thermal physics

Thermal Physics Syllabus (This is a PDF -You will need Acrobat Reader or Ghostview)
Books on Thermal Physics
Books on Mathematical Physics
Books on Mathematics
Books on Probability and Statistics
PROJECT SUGGESTIONS

The links below are class notes and homework solutions filed in chronological order. All are PDF's. They are now optimized for printing, and all fonts are embedded. If anything appears to be missing from your printed copies, I suggest that you check "Print as Image" which is one of the options on the print command in Adobe Acrobat.

Introductory Notes
Notes on Parial Derivatives
Heat and Temperature
The first law of thermodynamics
Notes on Heat Capacity and Enthalpy
Notes on Probability
Entropy Notes
Homework Assignment 2
Random Variables and PDF's PRINT VIEW
Canonical Ensemble and Partition Function PRINT VIEW
Example problem on canonical ensemble
Limits and Asymptotics
The semi-classical ideal gas
Homework Assignment 3
Intensive and Extensive Variables in Thermodynamics
Photons and Phonons (Long)
Take Home Test - Due Friday April 6
The Grand Canonical Ensemble (Still under construction)
The Fermi distribution and the Bose Distribution
Test 3 (optional)

PHILOSOPHY

You will notice that this site is plain and simple. My main desire is that the pages will load fast and that the content is clear. Anything that would distract from the desire for speed and clarity has not been used. This is a working site for serious students of physics.


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