PHY341/CHM341, Fall '08
Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics/Physical Chemistry I
Time: TR9:30 -10:45 PM in Olin 107Instructor: J. C. Macosko
OfficeHours: M WF 1:00-2:00pm and by appointment. Office: Olin 215
WebSites: At this web site you can find answers to exercises and full solutions to HW (after the HW has been submitted).
Text: Introduction to Modern Thermodynamics by Kondepudi (2008, John Wiley, New York)
Syllabus: Chapters 1 –10 and 17, (for details see weekly schedule below)
Grade based on: Points
Test #115*
Test #215*
Test #315*
Final project proposal* 5
Final (Comprehensive)†35†
Homework10
Participation 5
*Grades on final projects will replace one test score.
† Points from iClicker quizzes can be credited toward up to 25% of this grade.
Tentative schedule for tests and final:
Test 1: 25Sept. (Thurs.) Chapters 1 – 3
Test 2: 23Oct. (Thurs) Chapters 4 – 6
Test 3: 18 Nov. (Tues.) Chapters 7 – 9
Final: 9:00 am, Dec12 (Fri.) Comprehensive Exam
Remarks on tests:
• Any changes in scores must be done within a week after the graded tests are returned.
• All final answers in the tests must be in a box, unless the answer is descriptive.
In the event that the university closes due to pandemic or other disaster,please study the text and work the attached list of homework problems on the schedule
described. Please send the solutions to:
Jed Macosko (Thermo Homework)
Dept. of Physics, P.O. Box 7507
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109
You will be mailed or e-mailed a mid-term test and a final exam that should be taken closed book, without access to resources other than a calculator. Returnthe exam by Jan. 2, 2009.
Weekly schedule:
Date / Lecture notes / HW; weekly HW option grouped by # / Due: (bold=weekly HW) / Reading (quiz in next lecture)Th 8-28 / Lecture 1 / 1) Chapter 1: 1,5,7 / Th 9-4 / Chapter 1.1-4
Tu 9-2 / Lecture 2 / 1) Chapter 1: 9,10,21 / Tu 9-9 / Chp 1.5-6, appendix 1.2
Th 9-4 / Lecture 3 / 2) Chapter 2: 2,5,9 / Th 9-11 / Chp 2.1-3 (Joule notes)
Tu 9-9 / Lecture 4 / 2) Chapter 2: 12,13,16 / Tu 9-16 / Chapter 2.4-5
Th 9-11 / Lecture 5 / 3) Chapter 3: 1,2,5 / Th 9-18 / Chp 3.1-2, appendix 3.1
Tu 9-16 / Lecture 6 / 3) Chapter 3: 6,8,11 / Tu 9-23 / Chapter 3.3-8
Th 9-18 / Lecture 7 / Review Chapters 1-3 / for Midterm 1 / Study for Midterm 1
Tu 9-23 / Lecture 8 / 4) Chp 3: 9, Chp 4: 1,2,3,5,6 / Tu 9-30 / Study for Midterm 1
Th 9-25 / Exam 1 / 5) Chapter 5: 4,6,8 / Th 10-2 / Chp 4.1-4 appendix 4.1
Tu 9-30 / Lecture 9 / 5) Chapter 5: 13,15,16 / Tu 10-7 / Chapter 5.1-3
Th 10-2 / Lecture 10 / 6) Chapter 6: 2,3,6 / Th 10-9 / Chp 5.4-6, Chp 6.1-2a
Tu 10-7 / Lecture 11 / 6) Chapter 6: 7,8,10 / Tu 10-14 / Chapter 6.2b-3
Th 10-9 / Lecture_12 / 7) Chapter 7: 1,3,5 / Th 10-16 / Chapter 7.1-3
Tu 10-14 / Lecture 13 / 7) Chapter 7: 6,10,11 / Tu 10-21 / Chapter 7.4-5
Th 10-16 / Lecture 14 / Review Chapters 4-6 / for Midterm 2 / Study for Midterm 2
Tu 10-21 / Exam review / A) Presentation Proposals / Tu 10-28 / Study for Midterm 2
Th 10-23 / Exam 2 / 8) Chapter 8: 1,4,8 / Th 10-30 / Chapter 8.1-3
Tu 10-28 / Lecture 15 / 8) Chapter 8: 9,15,17 / Tu 11-4 / Chapter 8.3-5
Th 10-30 / Lecture 16 / 9) Chapter 9: 1,2,3,6,10,12 / Tu 11-11 / Chapter 9.1-5
Tu 11-4 / Lecture 17 / 10) Chapter 10: 1,3,4 / Th 11-13 / Chapter 10.1-2
Th 11-6 / Lecture 18 / 10) Chapter 10: 5,6,7 / Tu 11-18 / Chp 10.3, Chp 13.1-4
Tu 11-11 / Lecture 19 / Review Chapters 7-9 / for Midterm 3 / Study for Midterm 3
Th 11-13 / Exam review / 17) Chapter 17: 1,2,3 / Th 11-20 / Handout: thermo applied
Tu 11-18 / Exam 3 / 17) Chapter 17: 4,5,6 / Tu 11-25 / Chapter 17.1-4
Th 11-20 / Lecture 20 / B1) Finalize Presentations 1 / -- / Chapter 17.5-7
Tu 11-25 / Presentations / B2) Finalize Presentations 2 / -- / Chapters 1-6
Tu 12-2 / Presentations / C) Presentation Write-up / Friday 12-12 / Chapters 7-10,17
Th 12-4 / Final review / Review Chapters 1-10,17 / for Final / Chapters 1-10,17
Fri 12-12 / Final @ 9am
Possible presentation topics:
1. Perpetual motion machines: outright fraud or inspired invention?
2. Thermodynamics of the speed of sound.
3. Bose-Einstein condensation. There have been a number of exciting new experimental results in the last 4 years. See Physics Today or Nature or Physical Review Letters.
4. Thermodynamics of nano-particles (Nature 384, 621(1997)).
5. Cooling gases with a “optical molasses”(Stephen Chu, Wm. Phillips, Cohen-Tannoudji, Nobel prize, 1997)
6. Critical phenomena and critical-point fluctuations
7. Rubber elasticity and the configurational entropy of polymers; stretching DNA .
8. Brownian motion
9. Simulate the MB velocity distribution for an ideal gas.
10. Fluctuations in the pH of a cell because of its small volume.
11. Thermal fluctuations and the precision of scanning-probe microscopy.
12. Heat pumps
13. Refrigeration based on isentropic cooling
14. Liquifaction of oxygen and of air.
15. Why you need a turbocharger on your next car.
16. Osmotic pressure and the flow of fluids between capillaries and tissues.