THERMAL PHYSICS
        Phys 224, Autumn 2006.

        Instructor: Aurel Bulgac

          Office: PAB B478
          Phone : 685-2988
          Email: bulgac@phys.washington.edu
          The class will meet MWF 9:30 - 10:20 am in PAB A110.

          Daniel V. Schroeder, Thermal Physics (Addison & Wesley)

Syllabus


This syllabus is tentative, the amount of material and detail I shall cover will depend very much on how fast we shall proceed.  We will use two textbooks and cover some of the material in chapters 1-6 in Daniel Schroeder, Thermal Physics and some of the material in chapters 13, 17-20 in Douglas Giancoli, Physics forScientistsand Engineers.

      
Below I shall use  DG to denote  D.C. Giancoli, Physics for Scientists and Engineers and DS to denote D.V. Schroeder, Thermal Physics. I will suggest quite a number of problems from these textbooks. Try selectively as many problems as you can handle. Read them and ask yourself whether you can solve them. If the answer is no then you will have to try to solve them. If they seem clear and you think you know how to solve them then proceed further  and check the other problems. I shall post solutions after awhile and at that point you can check if what you thought you knew conforms with reality. There is simply no substitute for problem solving. If you understand the material you will be able to solve the problems easily, if not then work on your part is neccessary.  Quite often you will find that some of the problems rely on things you have learned in previous years and you might need to brush up a bit on some of that material.
Dates
 What to read         
 Topics
 Suggested homework  and  some solutions
9/27, 29
 DG 13.1-6

  Density, Pressure, Buoyancy
  DG 13: 5, 6, 10,  14, 15,  21, 22, 23, 30, 
              31,  32,  33, 75, 77,  83, 85
10/2, 4, 6
 DG 17.1-10
DS 1.1-2
  Temperature, Ideal Gas Law
  DG 17: 11, 14, 19, 25, 33, 37, 46, 48, 52,
              64,  67, 75, 76
 DS    1.9, 1.10-16
10/9, 11, 13, 16, 20
  DG 19.1-7
 DS  1. 4-6

  Heat, Work and the First Law
   DG 19:3, 11,  13,  15,  23, 37, 45, 79, 81,
               82, 84, 91
  DS    1.26-38, 1.41-44, 1.47, 1.48
10/18

 Exam 1
10/23, 25, 27
10/30, 11/1, 3

  DG 18.1-2
 DS  6.4 
 DS  1.3
 DS  2.1-4
 
 
   Kinetic theory of ideal gases
   Maxwell distribution
   Two-state model, Einstein solid
   Large systems,  interactions
  
  DS 2.1-11, 17-19, 22-25  (some of these will be quite challenging)
  DG 18 (the problems here are rather easy)
11/6, 8
  
DS  2.5-6


  
 Ideal gas, entropy of an ideal gas
 DS 2.29-30  (some of these will be quite challenging)
11/13, 17
 DS  2.6, 3.1-2 Entropy of mixing
Entropy and Heat 		 DS 2. 37, 2.39, 3.1-4
11/15
 Exam 2
11/20, 22
 DS 3.3-4
  Negative absolute temperatures
 Termodynamic identity
  DS 3.10-14, 3.19-24
11/27, 29, 12/1
 DG 20.1-10
DS 4.1-2
 Heat engines
  DG 20.8, 21, 22, 29, 30, 38, 39, 48, 56, 61, 66, 67
 DS 4.1-5, 4.7-12
12/4, 6, 8
 DG 18.3-7, 19.10
DS 1.7
  Real gases, Vapor pressure, 
  Mean free path,
  Diffusion, Heat transfer
 DG 18.19, 25, 26, 28, 29, 33, 37, 40, 43, 45
DG 19.72, 73, 74, 75
DS 1.56, 60, 61, 63, 64, 67,68
12/13
 Final exam, 8:30-10:20 am