Campus
Buffalo Univ
12 Capen Hall Buffalo, NY 14260-1660
Record Status
Active
PHY 208LEC
General Physics 4
Examines thermodynamics, including temperature, zeroth law, thermal expansion, specific heat, first law, second law, entropy, third law, kinetic theory, Brownian motion, and the ideal gas. Also explores special relativity, including historical background, Lorentz transformations, length contraction, time dilation, invariance of the laws of physics, relativistic dynamics and kinematics, and paradoxes.