Christopher Moore
Assistant Professor of Physics | Longwood University
PHYS 324: Thermodynamics of Materials
Spring 2008
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Class notes:
| 16-Jan | Thermodynamic variables | (PDF) | |
| 17-Jan | State variables and functions | (PDF) | |
| 18-Jan | Recitation 1 | ||
| 23-Jan | Thermodynamic systems and processes | (PDF) | Read Ch. I.1-2 of Fermi |
| 24-Jan | Energy and work | (PDF) | |
| 25-Jan | Properties of materials | (PDF) | |
| 28-Jan | Recitation 2 |
| 30-Jan | Stored energy in solids, 1st Law for fluids | (PDF) | Read Ch. II.3-4 of Fermi |
| 31-Jan | Quasi-static processes | (PDF) | |
| 1-Feb | Recitation 3 | ||
| 4-Feb | Heat capacities and gaseous behavior | (PDF) | Read Ch. II.5-6 of Fermi |
| 6-Feb | Internal energy and enthalpy for fluids | (PDF) | |
| 7-Feb | Thermo functions for general systems | (PDF) | |
| 8-Feb | Exam review |
| 11-Feb | EXAM 1 |
| 13-Feb | The second law | (PDF) | Read Ch. III of Fermi |
| 14-Feb | Heat stored during phase changes | (PDF) | |
| 15-Feb | Using Maxima to plot curves | (TXT) | |
| 18-Feb | Gibbs free energy | (PDF) | Read Ch. IV-V of Fermi |
| 20-Feb | Entropy content in materials Stable Phases of H2O w/ Maxima |
(PDF) (PDF) |
wxMaxima Code (TXT) |
| 21-Feb | Equilibrium thermodynamics | (PDF) | |
| 22-Feb | Equilibrium thermodynamics (cont.) |
| 25-Feb | Potential to add chemical species | (PDF) |
| 27-Feb | Chemical potential and equilibrium | (PDF) |
| 28-Feb | Equilibrium reactions and constant | (PDF) |
| 29-Feb | Equilibrium reactions (cont.) | |
| 3-Mar | Maxwell's relations | (PDF) |
| 5-Mar | Maxwell's relations (cont.) | |
| 6-Mar | Exam review | (PDF) |
| 7-Mar | EXAM 2 |
| 17-Mar | Stat. mech. and phase space | (PDF) |
| 19-Mar | Equilibrium and a magnetic material | (PDF) |
| 20-Mar | Imbalance and harmonic oscillators | (PDF) |
| 21-Mar | Flipping coins and rolling dice | |
| 24-Mar | Microcanonical ensemble and DOS | (PDF) |
| 26-Mar | Entropy, temperature and pressure | (PDF) |
| 27-Mar | Equation of state for paramagnetic mat. | (PDF) |
| 28-Mar | Ideal monoatomic gas | (PDF) |
| 31-Mar | Homework example |
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| 2-Apr | Canonical ensemble and partition function | (PDF) |
| 3-Apr | Non-interacting particles (Ideal Gas) | (PDF) |
| 4-Apr | Discrete energy states |
| 7-Apr | Diatomic gases |
(PDF) |
| 9-Apr | Equillibrium constant from partition funct. |
(PDF) |
| 10-Apr | Einstein and Debye solids |
(PDF) |
| 11-Apr | Exam review |
(PDF) |
| 14-Apr | EXAM 3 | |
| 16-Apr | Grand canonical ensemble | (PDF) |
| 17-Apr | Quantum statistics | (PDF) |
| 18-Apr | No class | |
| 21-Apr | Fermi-Dirac statistics | (PDF) |
| 23-Apr | Bose-Einstein statistics |
(PDF) |
| 24-Apr | Review | |
| 25-Apr | Review |
Many of my notes have been adapted from MIT Professor Craig Carter's notes. Notes on what is traditionally called Statistical Mechanics (the last 6 weeks of this course) are adapted from Chapters 8-12 of Tom Espinola's out-of-print Introduction to Thermophysics. I had Tom's course as an undergrad. It is the most consice, yet thorough treatment of stat. mech. that I can find. Unfortunately, the book is no longer in print, that I can tell.