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SYllabus PHY 401 Thermodynamics Spring 2008 Review of background topics in thermodynamics Instructor Dr.
Kendall Mallory Phone: (619) 849-2356 Department
of Physics Email: kmallory@pointloma.edu Office
hours: 10:00 to 11:30 Mon., Tues.,
Wed., and Thurs. Other times as
arranged TexT Charles
Kittel, Herbert Kroemer, Thermal Physics, W. H. Freeman and Company, 1980 Goals and Objectives Catalog statement PHY 401 (3) THERMODYNAMICS Fundamental
concepts of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics; applications to both
classical and quantum systems. Offered 2007-08. Thermal Physics - The study of
large interacting systems, like solutions, materials, and solids. These methods can be broken up into three
classes: ·
Classical Thermodynamics – phenomenological study of the relationships between
average thermodynamic measures of the states of systems, like temperature,
pressure and volume. ·
Statistical Mechanics
– statistical study of the probabilities of the states of large systems to
develop the thermodynamic relationships governing their behavior. Microscopic models of states are connected
to thermodynamic quantities. ·
Kinetic Theory –
detailed models of particle dynamics are used to develop models of the
thermodynamic behavior of systems. This course will emphasize
methods of statistical mechanics but we will also review methods of classical
thermodynamics and look at some kinetic theory. Grading Two mid term exams: 25 % each Final exam, cumulative: 25 % Homework: 25 % |
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Chapter 1 |
States of a Model System |
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Binary Model Systems Average Values |
Binomial and Multinomial
Distributions |
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Chapter 2 |
Entropy and Temperature |
Problems |
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1, 2, 3 |
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Chapter 3 |
Boltzmann Distribution and
Helmholtz Free Energy |
Problems |
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1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9 |
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Chapter 4 |
Thermal Radiation and Planck Distribution |
Problems |
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1, 2, 4, 7, 12, 13 |
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Chapter 5 |
Chemical Potential and Gibbs
Distribution |
Problems |
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1, 2, 6, 7, 10 |
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Chapter 6 |
Ideal Gas |
Problems |
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PV = NkBT |
2, 5, 6, 9, 10, 14 |
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Chapter 7 |
Fermi and Bose Gases |
Problems |
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1, 3, 10, 11, 12, 14 |
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Chapter 8 |
Heat and Work |
Problems |
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1, 2, 3, 6, 8 |
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Chapter 9 |
Gibbs Free Energy and Chemical
Reactions |
Problems |
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1, 3, 5 |
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Chapter 10 |
Phase Transitions |
Problems |
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1, 2, 3, 6, 7 |
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Chapter 11 |
Binary Mixtures |
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Chapter 12 |
Cryogenics |
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Chapter 13 |
Semiconductor Statistics |
Problems |
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1, 2, 4, 7, 10, 11 |
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Chapter 14 |
Kinetic Theory |
Problems |
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1, 2, 3, 4, 5, |
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Chapter 15 |
Propagation |
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