PHY 3062 and PHY 3513 THERMAL PHYSICS
in vivo schedule PAST
and FUTURE
Week 01: Aug. 20 No class.
Aug. 22 Introduction of Course.
Aug. 24 Chapter 1, Reading of all Sections of Ch. 1, Problems: 1-6, 1-13, 1-19, 1-22.
Lecture covered: units, definitions of terms, Zeroth Law, thermometers, start on discussion of temperature.
Week 02: Aug. 27 Finish discussion on the definition of temperature that was started at the end of the last class period.
Start Chaper 2, first with Sections 2-9 and 2-10, then back to 2-1 onward to complete chapter.
Material up through the end of class on this day may be on Quiz 1.
Problems: 2-3, 2-4, 2-8, 2-9, 2-11, 2-19, 2-21, 2-22, 2-24, 2-27, 2-29.
Lecture did cover up to some material in Section 2-5, including Fig. 2-8 and Fig. 2-9.
Aug. 29 Resume discussion starting with Fig. 2.8 and Fig. 2-9.
Finish Chapter 2. Challenge the statement on p. 47 about the sign of the compressibility.
Ref: R. H. Baughman et al., "Materials with Negative Compressibilities in One or More Dimensions",
Science 279 (1998) 1522-1524.
Aug. 31 Complete Chapter 2 with some examples. Start Chapter 3.
Problems: 3-2, 3-3, 3-4, 3-6, 3-7, 3-11, 3-13, 3-16, 3-17, 3-19, more in Ch. 3 tba.
Quiz 1at the end of class.
Week 03: Sep. 03 No class, Labor Day.
Sep. 05 Continue Chapter 3, First Law. Finish up to and including Section 3-10.
Mid-term Exam 1 (MTE 1) to include all material up to and including Section 3-10, except for Section 3-3.
Section 3-3 is part of the material for the rest of the course, but its contents will not be on MTE 1.
Additional Chapter 3 Problems: 3-22, 3-26, 3-27 (not d). Review present status of Formula Sheet.
Sep. 07 Review for Mid-term Exam 1.
Week 04: Sep. 10 Mid-term Exam 1.
Sep. 12 Guest Lecture: Professor Gary Ihas, Low temperature physics.
Sep. 14 No Class
Week 05: Sep. 17 Return Mid-term Exam 1, Susumu and Ju-Hyun.
Sep. 19 Meisel returns, Discuss origin of problems for MTE1, Continue with heat capacity, specific heat, and enthalapy.
Additional Chapter 3 Problems: 3-28, 3-29, 3-32, 3-33.
Quiz 2 will be from previous problems assigned from Ch. 3, not Section 3-3.
Review MTE1 at the end of class.
Sep. 21 Quiz 2 at the end of class. More on entalapy. Flow Processes, and some examples:
Calorimeter, Throttle Valve, Nozzle (Jet Engine), Turbine, Incompressible Fluid Flow (Bernoulli's Equation)
Week 6: Sep. 24 Review Quiz 2. "Expand" upon enthalpy example.
Sep. 26 Begin Chapter 4. Problems: 4-2, 4-4, 4-7, 4-11; and for experts (not fair for quizzes or exams) 4-5, 4-6, 4-10.
Sep. 28 Expanded discussion of Gay-Lussac and Joule Experimental Measurements of the Joule coefficient.
Redo do the calculation for the theoretical expectation. Start Joule-Thomson Device. Quiz 3.
Week 7: Oct. 01 Review Quiz 3. Units conversions and significant digits discussion. Continue with "engines".
Material covered from Wed., Sep. 26, to the end of today, is the focus of Quiz 4.
Additional Problems: 4-18.
Oct. 03 "Exand" refrigerator discussion. Joule-Thomson expansion and inversion curves.
Counter-flow (constant flow and many other names) heater exchanger example.
Start Carnot discussion.
Oct. 05 [Fire alarm period before our class.] Continue Carnot Cycle. Quiz 4
Week 8: Oct. 08 Review Quiz 4. Discuss the importance of homework. Continue Carnot Cycle and examples and problems.
Additional Problems for Chapter 4: 4-21, 4-22, 4-23, 4-24, 4-25, 4-33, 4-36, 4-37,
4-38 (note the 1975 prices), 4-39.
Oct. 10 "Proof" of two engines working together having the same effieciency.
Start "Otto" cycle discussion and its relationship to Gator Nationals!
Oct. 12 More about Otto Cycle. "Diesel" cycle. "Rankine" cycle and steam engines, see Sec. 8-9.
Quiz 5.
Week 9: Oct 15 Review Quiz 5. Pose some additional problems: Joule cycle, investment possiblity, 3 heat bath engine.
Oct. 17 Review the answers to the three posed problems.
Start Ch. 5. Problems for Chapter 5: 5-3, 5-5, 5-6, 5-8, 5-9, 5-16, 5-22, 5-27, 5-31.
Discuss the issues related to the material from Chapter 5 that will be fair for MTE 2.
Oct. 19 More about "entropy". Quiz 6
Week 10: Oct. 22 Guest Lecture: Prof. Steve Hagen: (in the Spring, he teaches PHZ 4710 Intro. to Biophysics, see his webpage for links)
"What thermodynamics and statistical mechanics tells us about the properties of biological macromolecules"
Oct. 24 Review for Mid-term Exam
Week 11: Oct. 29 Return Mid-term 2, Review the Content of Chapter 5, "3 Other Problems" (solutions to be posted Monday)
Oct. 31 Start Chapter 6 and Problems: 6-2, 6-3, 6-4, 6-12, 6-17, 6-19, 6-22, 6-25, 6-26, 6-30 (solutions to be posted Fri., 9 Nov.)
Not Sections 6-10, 6-11, 6-12 (reading and review for the experts)
Nov. 02 No Class, Homecoming
Week 12: Nov. 05 Continue with Chapter 6 discussion and Start Chapter 7, Derive Maxwell's Relations
Nov. 07 Maxwell's Relations and the specific heat of liquid 3He: Landau, Wheatley, Helsinki, et al.
Nov. 09 More on the specific heat controversy, need for low temperature "thermodynamic" thermometer,
Quiz 7 (on Chapter 5 material), "2nd Law Paradox Demostration",
Rolling cans of food down an inclined plane for fun, physics, and social awareness.
Week 13: Nov. 12 No Class, Veterans' Day
Nov. 14 Reminder about Ch. 6, The 3He Melting Curve Thermometer, Clausis-Clapeyron Equation
Problems for Chaper 7: 7-4, 7-8, 7-16, 7-18, 7-22, 7-26, 7-27, 7-29.
Nov. 16 Course Evaluations and Quiz 8 (on Chapter 6 material)
Week 14: Nov. 19 Finish the Pomeranchuk cell discussion and aspects of Ch. 7.
Nov. 21 Begin discussion on Surface Tension (Sec. 8-4)
Nov. 23 No Class, Thanksgiving Holiday
Week 15: Nov. 26 Continue discussion on Surface Tension and Liquid Drop (Sec. 8-5) and critical radius
Nov. 30 Review for Mid-term Exam 3
Week 16: Dec. 03 Mid-term Exam 3
Dec. 05 Return Mid-term Exam 3, Review Course, Class ends
Final Exam:
Wednesday,
12 December, 07:30-09:30 hrs (Final Exam Group 12A)
Special Notes about the Syllabus: Please
note that the dates for all quizzes, examinations and chapter starts are
TENTATIVE. The schedule will be finalized during the
course and will be announced in class.