Topics include: microstates and macrostates, Phase space; interactions between macroscopic systems; equilibrium conditions and entropy, thermodynamic laws and basic statistical relations; macroscopic parameters; applications; ensembles, the canonical distribution; partition of functions, applications; equilibrium between phases Bose and Fermi statistics, applications. PREREQ: PHYS 3036 or dept.’s permission. (lec 3) cr 3
