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| | UCC Book of Modules, 2006/2007: Physics (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Module Content: Analysis of real-life physical systems using basic physical laws and principles; construction of appropriate models of physical systems; methods of analysis and verification of resulting models. |
 | | Module Content: Rigid body dynamics, small oscillations about equilibrium, coupled oscillators, normal modes, wave equation, sound waves, phase velocity; group velocity, the two-body problem: conservation of linear and angular momentum, Kepler's problem; conservation of energy; Rutherford scattering, motion in a rotating frame. |
 | | Module Content: Heat conduction, Brownian motion, entropy and the basis of quantum statistical mechanics, Boltzmann factor, chemical potential, ideal gas, Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein and Maxwell Distributions, heat engines and the Carnot cycle, thermal radiation, chemical reactions, phase transformations. |
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