Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

PHY 306 — Statistical and Thermal Physics I

PHY department course · Nigerian universities

What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

• On completion, the student should be able to
• describe an ideal gas on the basis of classical statistics
• describe the implications of the indistinguishability of particles for systems of noninteracting quantum particles
• Education 905 New

Course contents

Basic theory of thermodynamics. Basic of probability theory; microstates and macrostates. The concept of ensembles. Statistical interpretation of entropy and temperature; Isolated systems and the microcanonical ensemble. Statistical physics of non-isolated systems. Derivation of the Boltzmann distribution and canonical ensemble.

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study PHY 306.

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