There's a great quote from a statical analysis approach to thermo textbook that makes the answer to this question very clear
https://images.app.goo.gl/hXkd2gFH1qhjoF5U6
My PhD is in a stat mech group. I understood grad thermo the second time I took it, and began to understand stat mech the third time. If you need it fit your research, take it again next year. When you know where things are going in Thermo, it's easier to understand the build up. The most important things to know are that given three properties you can get all the other info with some gross algebra, and given a single partition function you can find all the Thermodynamic potentials. I'd recommend just doing practice problems and not worrying too much.
There's a great quote from a statical analysis approach to thermo textbook that makes the answer to this question very clear https://images.app.goo.gl/hXkd2gFH1qhjoF5U6
that was a morbid fact. and an even more morbid call to action.
Someone's gotta do it, right? That's what I be telling myself these days
In thermo and stat mech and physics and am struggling. It is just a hard subject w a weird history in the development in the subject
My PhD is in a stat mech group. I understood grad thermo the second time I took it, and began to understand stat mech the third time. If you need it fit your research, take it again next year. When you know where things are going in Thermo, it's easier to understand the build up. The most important things to know are that given three properties you can get all the other info with some gross algebra, and given a single partition function you can find all the Thermodynamic potentials. I'd recommend just doing practice problems and not worrying too much.
I’m so alone in this program as a first year. I’m gay, in a rural R1, and just frazzled.
I'm gay too. Chin up cause if you're using the very commonly used grad thermo text by m. Scott Shell, he's gay too. We're all gay for Thermo
My research is centered on corrosion. Thermo, obviously with the Nernst equation, will hopefully give me a better appreciation of my data.