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 |
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Carnot cycle, refrigeration |
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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 |
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Apr 21 | 7 | Quantum statistics, the really weird stuff of real life | |
Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac distribution functions |
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Phase transitions, Ternary phas diagrams |
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Final | Exam |
Electronic version (and updates) available from http://www.physics.unc.edu/~sean/APPL130/syllabus.html