Text: Introduction to Thermal Physics (Daniel Schroeder, Addison-Wesley)
Supplementary: Stowe, Sears, Kittel, ...

Youse should make points of visiting Schroeder's website for LOTS of useful stuff.

Mathematical formulae: Dwight (QA310.D5), Prudnikov (QA308.P7813)

All exams: (3-4 problems) open book (Schroeder only) and approved calculators (not needed usually)
Grades: approximately 30% hw problems and 70% exams

Expected mathematical skills:
Elementary statistics, second order ordinary differential equations, Fourier expansions, elementary linear algebra
(All will be introduced as practical skills as needed with no background.)

Problems are due by close of business (5pm is safe) on Mondays.

week /
  date
read
chapter 
Main themes covered in lectures 
problems due Monday
Jan 14 1 Introduction to themes and statistics


atoms vs ensembles, quantum vs classical, what is thermo about?
Jan 21  1 The first microscopic model: ideal gas, equation of state 1.7, 8, 16, 17, 33, 34


Internal energy, degrees of freedom, equipartition, heat and work
Jan 28 1, 2 The 1st Law: Energy transport, heat flow, heat capacity 1.40, 46, 57, 2.3, 8


The 2nd law, Statistics of available states
Feb 4 2 Entropy and its statistical foundation 2.22, 28, 30, 42


Entropy, reversibility, adiabatic processes
Feb 11 3 Temperature vs entropy vs heat 3.10, 16, 32, 34


Equilibrium and chemical potential
Feb 18
Exam on Chapters 1, 2 & 3
Feb 25 4 Heat engines, efficiency, coeff of performance


Carnot cycle, refrigeration

Mar 3 4 Mechanical work, compression and thermal expansion 4.6, 14, 15, 33



 
Mar 17 5 Free energy, Gibbs energy and all that 5.6, 12, 13, 23


System constraints and Maxwell relations  
Mar 24  5 Isothermal, Isobaric and all that 5.29, 32, 36, 41



 
March 31
5
Phase transitions in a pure substance 5.46, 48, 58, 67
Apr 7
Exam:  4 & 5  
  6 Boltzmann statistics for state occupation 6.2, 30, 32(not d), 42
Apr 14   Partition function, how to derive all of thermo 7.8, 16, 34, 46
Apr 21 7 Quantum statistics, the really weird stuff of real life


Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac distribution functions


Phase transitions, Ternary phas diagrams
Final
Exam  

Electronic version (and updates) available from http://www.physics.unc.edu/~sean/APPL130/syllabus.html