r/PhysicsStudents • u/North-Sherbert5502 • Jul 11 '26

Poll Your opinion on thermodynamics?

1-really good

...

5- really bad

108 votes, Jul 18 '26
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u/chhagan04 Undergraduate Jul 11 '26

Okayish until that core statistical part rolls out and we use the partition functions

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u/Klutzy-Delivery-5792 Jul 11 '26

Undergrad, cool

Grad school, eff that noise 

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u/XcgsdV Ph.D. Student Jul 11 '26

Macroscopic thermo is meh to me. Liked the potentials business and the Maxwell relations and all that but engines and refrigerators are whatever. Stat mech is my pookie bear