PHY294H1S
Quantum and Thermal Physics
Official description
This course is taken by students of Engineering Science Division Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering (FASE).
The first half of the semester will continue with the development of quantum mechanics. Topics will include Shrödinger's wave mechanics, tunneling, bound states in potential wells, the quantum oscillator, and atomic spectra.
The second half of the semester will give an introduction to the basic ideas of classical statistical mechanics. Topics discussed are: the ideal gas law, its microscopic understanding, energy equipartition, the postulate of statistical mechanics, and Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics. Applications of these ideas to systems of many spins, oscillators, and particles will be considered in detail.
- Prerequisite
- PHY293H1
- Co-requisite
- n.a.
- Exclusion
- MIE333H1
- Recommended preparation
- MAT292H1
Additional information
The Lab Coordinator and the Course Coordinator are TBA.
- course title
- PHY294H1S
- session
- winter
- year of study
- 2nd year
- time and location
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38.4L: LEC0101: MWF9 OR LEC0102: M4, W4, R4 12.8P: W9-12/W2-5 12.8T: M10/M2/M4/T12/T1/W2/W3/R2/F10/F4 Students/TAs: Room information available on ACORN (https://www.acorn.utoronto.ca/) Instructors: Room information available in the LSM Portal (https://lsm.utoronto.ca/lsm_portal)
- Course URL
- http://q.utoronto.ca
- coordinator
- practical coordinator
- instructors
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