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Subject offerings of new and developing areas of knowledge in aerospace engineering intended to augment existing formal courses. Topics and prerequisites vary for each section. See Class Schedule or departmental course information for both. Course Information: May be repeated in the same or separate terms if topics vary to a maximum of 12 hours.

The course provides the basic knowledge of the kinetic theory of gases, chemical thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. These analytical tools will then be applied to the study of equilibrium gas properties over wide temperature ranges, the kinetics of physical and chemical reactions, and the interaction of matter with radiation. The course material is useful in studies of combustion chemistry, high temperature and rarefied gas dynamics, low temperature plasmas, hypersonics, gas diagnostics with lasers, etc.