STATISTICAL MECHANICS

CHEM 116

A quantitative treatment of macroscopic phenomena including thermodynamics, chemical equilibria, solution behavior, electrochemistry, and chemical kinetics.

CHEM 561

Macroscopic theory: laws and fundamental equations of thermodynamics, chemical equilibria, phase equilibria, and kinetic theory of gases.

PHYSICS 715

Statistical foundations, Liouville's theorem, ensembles, classical and quantum distribution functions, entropy and temperature, connection with thermodynamics, partition functions, quantum gases, non-ideal gases, phase transitions and critical phenomena, non-equilibrium problems, Boltzmann equation and the H-theorem, transport properties, connections with quantum field theory, applications of statistical mechanics to selected problems.

PHYSICS 415

An introduction to thermodynamics and statistical mechanics from a physics perspective. Thermodynamics, phase equilibrium, kinetic theory of gases, classical and quantum statistical mechanics.

CHEM 661

Basic chemical thermodynamics with applications to chemical and phase equilibria and the study of solutions; introduction to statistical mechanics and calculation of thermodynamic quantities from molecular models; stability and fluctuations.