GATE Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics – Previous Year Questions by Topic

GATE Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (Physics) previous year questions, topic by topic: Laws of thermodynamics, macrostates and microstates, phase space, partition function, free energy, calculation of thermodynamic quantities, classical and quantum statistics, degenerate Fermi gas and more.

• Laws of thermodynamics 12 questions
• macrostates and microstates 4 questions
• phase space 1 questions
• partition function, free energy, calculation of thermodynamic quantities 5 questions
• classical and quantum statistics 4 questions
• degenerate Fermi gas 1 questions
• black body radiation and Planck's distribution law 1 questions
• Bose-Einstein condensation 1 questions
• first and second order phase transitions, phase equilibria, critical phenomena. 2 questions