Thermal Physics

PHY474: Thermal Physics, FALL 1997

Teacher: Miron Kaufman

OFFICE: SI-116, Email:

m.kaufman@popmail.csuohio.edu

Class meets on: TU and TH 4:00-5:50PM in SI-147.

Prerequisites: MTH171-174, MTH-245, PHY231-233.

Textbook: Callen: Thermodynamics and an Introduction to Thermostatistics

Recomended Books: Espinola Introduction to Thermophysics, Zemansky and Dittman Heat and Thermodynamics; Morse Thermal Physics; Reif Statistical and Thermal Physics

Tentative Schedule

Week#1 Mechanical and Chemical Work, Heat
Week#2,3,4 First Law
Week#5 Second Law, Heat Engines
Week#6,7 Joule and Joule-Thompson Experiments, Black Body Radiation
Week#8,9 Thermodynamic Potentials, Stability, Maxwell Relations, Third Law
Week#10,11 Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena in Fluids and Superconductors

Important Dates

Last day to drop the course: October 31
No classes: November 11, November 27

Exams Schedule

Exam #1 TU, October 28
Final Exam TU, December 9

The final grade is a weighted average of:

Exam #1 35%
Exam #2 45%
Homework, Quizzes 10%
Computer Project 10%

Part of the course is a group project in the computer lab of the Mathematics Department RT1501. We will work nontrivial problems in Thermal Physics by using MathCad6 on the following dates:

TH, October 2:
Computer lab #0- Brief MathCad tutorial; Example of maximum change in entropy
Computer lab #1- Estimate the mass of the atmosphere
TH, October 16:
Computer lab #2- Stirling cycle heat engine
TH, November 20:
Computer lab #3- Ruchardt method for Cp/Cv
Computer lab #4- van der Waals fluid
Computer lab #5- Thermodynamic Stability

Homework

Homework #1

HRW Ch.16: 3E, 13E, 17E, 37E, 81P

HRW Ch.19: 20E, 21E, 31E, 44P

HRW Ch.20: 13E, 14E, 18P

Callen Ch.1 Sect.3: 1, 2.

Due: TU. 9/30/1997

Homework #2

HRW Ch.20: 19P, 22P, 25P, 40E

Integrate the following differentials if they are exact: du = xydx + xydy; du = xyydx + xxydy; du = sin(x)dx + cos(y)dy.

Due: TH. 10/2/19