Sep 02, 2025  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

PHYS 340 - Thermal Physics I

2.00 credit hours
Interrelationships among temperature, energy, entropy, and other properties of a physical system, examined at the macroscopic level using the tools of thermodynamics. Topics covered include equations of state, the laws of thermodynamics, energy, enthalpy, entropy, Gibbs energy, Maxwell relations, phase equilibrium. Laboratory required. Students may not receive credit for both CHEM 340  and PHYS*340.

Prerequisite(s): PHYS 132  or PHYS 162  and MATH 151 


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