3760: Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (Spring 2007)
Announcement:
Final: Thursday, May 1,
2008
10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Follow
the link and check your current grading, contact TA if you believe you have
your grades wrong
Instructor: Andrey Rogachev, 311 JFB, Phone 585-0792
rogachev@physics.utah.edu (when you send me an e-mail please put “3760” in subject line)
Office hours: Monday 4:30-6:30 pm, or by
appointment
Teaching Assistant: Bill Pandit [billpandit@gmail.com]
Secretary: Heidi Frank, Office: JFB 201C, Phone: (801) 581-5697, heidi@physics.utah.edu
Course web site: http://www.physics.utah.edu/~rogachev/3760/rogachev3760.htm
Lectures are in JFB B-1
Main textbook: Daniel V. Schroeder, An Introduction to Thermal Physics.
Advanced Textbooks: Reif, Fundamentals of statistical and thermal physics (my favorite)
Kittel and Kroemer, Thermal physics
(You may want to have one of these textbooks if you plan to take 5- and 7-level Physics Courses)
Grading:
an extra credit. Extra credit comes on top of the final score including a possible curve.
The group of two is a maximum when you work on the extra credit problem. Please identify
your partner. Keep your graded homeworks and midterms. You will need them there is a mistake
or misprint in the course final grade table.
Quiz (6): 15 points each
Midterm tests (2): 40 points
each, 80 points total
Final test: 80 points
Your find a mistake (not grammatical) in my notes or homework solutions you get extra points.
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86 – 90 B+
83 – 86 B
80 – 83 B-
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60 – 63
Homework is due on Wednesday 11:50am every week before lecture.
Exceptions: medical emergencies,
imprisonment, etc. only if well documented.
Two homeworks with the lowest score will be dropped.
Quiz
Every second Friday at the end of the lecture. Duration is 15 minutes.
A quiz may be open notes or close notes.
A quiz with the lowest score will be dropped
Equations Laws and Definitions
Table of thermodynamic parameters of some chemical elements and molecules copied from the textbook)
Content (tentative)
1) Temperature, pressure, equation of state of ideal gas.
2) Heat and work. First law of thermodynamics. Specific heat. Enthalpy.
3) Entropy, The second law of thermodynamics. Statistical interpretation of entropy and temperature.
4) Free energy. Thermal equilibrium.
5) Heat engines. Carnot cycle.
6) Maxwell distribution. Effusion and cooling.
7) Indistinguishable particles, Fermi-Dirac Statistics. Specific heat of metal.
8) Bose-Einstein statistics. Photons, Black-body radiation. Phonons. Thermal noise.
9) Chemical equilibrium. Chemical potential. Gibbs free energy. Chemical phases.
10) Electro-chemical potential.
11) Kinetics. Heat transfer, thermal and electrical conductivity, viscosity, diffusion, approaching equilibrium.
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Jan
7 M |
L01, Temperature, Ideal Gas, |
Notes p. 1-17, |
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Jan
9 W |
Equipartition theorem, Non-ideal gas |
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Jan
11 F |
L02, Energy, heat, work, 1st law, |
Notes, p17-32 |
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Jan
14 M |
Compression of ideal gas, Speed of sound |
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Jan
16 W |
L03 Specific heat, latent heat,
Enthalpy |
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Jan 19
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L03 continue |
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Jan 23
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L04 Entropy, Temperature, |
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Jan 25
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The second law. |
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Jan 28
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Problem solving |
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Jan 30
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L04 continue |
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Feb
1 F |
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Feb
4 M |
L05 Reversible and irreversible processes |
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Feb
6 W |
L06 Heat engines, Carnot cycle |
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Feb
8 F |
midterm |
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Feb
11 M |
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Feb
13 W |
Internal
combustion engines |
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Feb
15 F |
Refrigerators |
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Feb
20 W |
L07 L08 Boltzmann factor, Partition function. |
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Feb
22 F |
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Quiz,
Quiz solutions |
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Feb
25 M |
L9, Boltzmann distribution in systems of spins |
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Feb
28 W |
MRI,
adiabatic demagnetization |
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Feb
29 F |
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Mar
3 M |
L10 11 12,
– Boltzmann distribution in |
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Mar
5 W |
Classical
systems. Maxwell Distribution |
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Mar
7 F |
Effusion, Isotopes separation |
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Mar
10 M |
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Mar
12 W |
Heat
pump presentation, HW#8 problems |
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Mar
14 F |
Midterm2 |
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Mar 24 M |
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Mar 26
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L13 Gibbs Free Energy |
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Mar 28
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Electrolyses,
Fuel Cells |
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Mar
31 M |
L14 Chemical Potential |
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Apr
2 W |
L15 Chemical potentials, Maxwell relations |
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Apr
4 F |
L16 Phase transformations |
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Apr
7 M |
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Apr
9 W |
Binary
Mixtures |
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Apr
11 F |
L18 Dilute solutions |
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Apr
14 M |
L19 Quantum statistics |
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Apr
16 W |
L20 Photons and radiation |
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Apr
18 F |
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Apr
21 M |
Problems |
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Apr
23 W |
Problems |
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