2.57/2.570: Nano-to-Macro Transport Processes
Class Information
Spring | Graduate/Undergraduate | 12 Units | Prereq: 2.005, 2.051
Tuesday & Thursday 9:30-11:00 AM | Location: 3-370 | Office Hours: Tuesday 11:00-1:00 or by appointment
Parallel treatments of photons, electrons, phonons, and molecules as energy carriers; aiming at a fundamental understanding of descriptive tools for energy and heat transport processes, from nanoscale to macroscale. Topics include energy levels; statistical behavior and internal energy; energy transport in the forms of waves and particles; scattering and heat generation processes; Boltzmann equation and derivation of classical laws; and deviation from classical laws at nanoscale and their appropriate descriptions. Applications in nanotechnology and microtechnology. Students taking the graduate version complete additional assignments.
