Instructor: Professor Steven White

Office: PS2 2172

Phone: 824-2256

E-mail: srwhite@uci.edu

Lecture: MWF 12:00-12:50 RH 390

Office Hours: WF 11-12

World Wide Web address for this course: http://hedrock.ps.uci.edu/115B.html

Required Text:

Thermodynamics and an Introduction to Thermostatistics, Second edition by Herbert Callen, published by Wiley.

Grading : Homework assignments will consitute 35% of the grade, the midterm 25%, and the final, 40%.

• General Principles of classical thermodynamics, Ch. 1-8
• Phase transitions and critical phenomena, Ch. 9-10