Calendar Description
Course Information and Outline
Assignments
Evaluation: Assignments (best 8 of 10): 40%
In-Class test: February 15: 5%
[Please see the assignments page for the 2018 midterm and solutions. I will be using the same equation sheet for the 2019 midterm. You should bring a calculator. The midterm could include any material to the end of week 5. If anyone cannot make the exam for the time scheduled for *any* reason, you may put 5% onto the final exam.]
Final Exam: 55%
N.B. The combined in-class test + final exam is worth 60%. I will allocate marks to give you an advantage
E.g. In-class test= 2/5=40%, Final=50/55= 91%==> Final test+exam mark=91%x60=55 (all marks go on final)
E.g. In-class test=4/5=80%, Final=30/55=55% ==> Final test+exam mark=34/60
In other words, the in-class test is only counted if it gives you an advantage
Class Notes
Final Exam: April 11, 2:00 p.m. Dunning Hall
Cover sheet
Equation sheet
N.B. Week of April 1 to April 5:
No class on Friday!
Deliver Assignment 10 to mail slot in Dr. Irwin's door (room 308E) by 3:30 p.m. (no late assignments accepted!!)
Pick up assignments from box down the hall from my office
Assignments 9 and 10 are in the box down the hall from my office
Click here for your term marks
Nature, it seems, is the popular name for milliards and milliards and milliards of particles playing their infinite game of of billiards and billiards and billiards (Piet Hein)
Some extra information:
1. Experimental measurement of the vibration of a molecule in a solid
2. Assumptions understanding T via kinetic theory
3. The ideal gas surface
4. Surfaces for other substances
4. Sample van der Waals constants (N.B. each of the constants, a, are times 10^3, not just the first one)
5. Sample equations of state for gases
6. Exact differential for PVT surface
7. The cyclic relation
8. Approaches to differentiation (a)
Approaches to differentiation (b)
Approaches to differentiation (c)
9. Example of measurement of coefficient of thermal expansion for teeth
10. Determining whether a differential is exact via mixed second partial derivatives
11. Example as to how to find an equation of state (a)
Example as to how to find an equation of state (b)
12. The Gay-Lussac Joule experiment for determining that U = U(T) only for an ideal gas: explanation, figure
13. Work-Heat in the context of a System
14. Sample volume coefficients of expansion: Liquids Solids (scroll down to table)
15. General expressions for heat capacity and specific heats
16. c_p and c_v for copper and mercury
17. beta and kappa for copper and mercury
18. Ways to increase entropy
19. Multiplicity of an Einstein Solid in the high T limit
20. Reconciliation of Cp equation of #15 above with Eqn. 1.45 text
21. The TdS equations (ignore the reference to #9 and #14 on this sheet)
22. Applications of the Stirling Engine
23. The Joule-Thomson effect, or 'throttling'
24. Bruce nuclear power plant Hydrogen fuel cell
25. Identities of the thermodynamic potentials
26. Maxwell relations
27. The chemical potential
28. Video of triple point of water
29. Phase diagrams
30. Temperature gradient in Earth's Lithosphere
31. Kyanite, Andalusite, and Sillimanite
32. Derivation of distribution function for an ideal gas (associated figure)
Note that in Eqn. 1, the RHS is multipled by N
33. Bose-Einstein statistics, Fermi-Dirac statistics