MCD Lab · Teaching

Courses grounded in thermodynamics, and statistical mechanics.

August–November

CL 602

Advanced Thermodynamics

An integrated treatment of classical and statistical thermodynamics, progressing from macroscopic laws and equilibrium to molecular ensembles, fluctuations, and transport phenomena.

Thermodynamic laws, potentials & relations Stability, phase transitions & criticality Statistical ensembles & partition functions Ideal gases & indistinguishable particles Transport, Brownian motion & correlations Fluctuations & information entropy