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This course is to further strengthen student’s mathematical skills in order to understand the intermediate or advanced levels of physics.

This course is aimed to provide complete knowledge for physics students in understanding thermodynamics fundamental knowledge. This course starts with the essentials of thermodynamics where students will be introduced to the definition of temperature and mechanical equivalent of heat, change of phase, latent heat, and calorimetry of water. Moving to Chapter 2, discussion in detail calorimetry, where finding specific heat, final temperature, and what is the final state of any material under any heat process. Chapter 3 will discuss more on expansion, what is thermal linear expansion, thermal area expansion, and thermal volume expansion. Heat transfer through conduction, convection, and radiation will be discussed in detail in Chapter 4, and Chapter 5 discusses in detail the pressure and kinetic model of an ideal gas. The Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution will be covered under this sub-topic as well. Chapter 6 explain more about the application of thermodynamics which is the first law of thermodynamics, the internal energy of the gas, and the P-V diagram of many thermodynamics processes (i.e., isobaric, isochoric, isothermal), the adiabatic process will be discussed in detail under this topic as well. Entropy and its application under Chapter 7. And the final chapter, Chapter 8, will elaborate more on heat engine efficiency, where students will look more at the difference between diesel engines and petrol engines and also a refrigerator.

In Thermodynamics it is shown that the thermal properties of a system compound of a very large number of particles is characterised by a relatively small number of quantities such as the internal energy, the temperature, the pressure, the volume, the entropy etc. Thermodynamics was developed without any hypothesis about a microscopic picture of the matter in its three forms: solid, liquid or gas. However with the development of the atomic theory, it began to be possible to look for the link between the macroscopic world and a microscopic picture. At the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century, the first steps towards a theory relating the macroscopic world and a microscopic picture were proposed by Boltzmann and Gibbs. At this time the term Statistical Mechanics was coined by Gibbs.

This course will give an insights to students to develop a working knowledge of statistical physics at the undergraduate level and to use this knowledge to explore various applications in physics. This course develops the methods of statistical in classical physics and quantum physics.

In Thermodynamics it is shown that the thermal properties of a system compound of a very large number of particles is characterised by a relatively small number of quantities such as the internal energy, the temperature, the pressure, the volume, the entropy etc. Thermodynamics was developed without any hypothesis about a microscopic picture of the matter in its three forms: solid, liquid or gas. However with the development of the atomic theory, it began to be possible to look for the link between the macroscopic world and a microscopic picture. At the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century, the first steps towards a theory relating the macroscopic world and a microscopic picture were proposed by Boltzmann and Gibbs. At this time the term Statistical Mechanics was coined by Gibbs.

This course will give an insights to students to develop a working knowledge of statistical physics at the undergraduate level and to use this knowledge to explore various applications in physics. This course develops the methods of statistical in classical physics and quantum physics.