PHYS 317 - Thermodynamics & Statistical Mechanics

Instructor: Katharina Vollmayr-Lee, kvollmay@bucknell.edu, Olin 152, x7-3109

Office Hours: TR 3-4, F 2-3, and by appointment

Text: Daniel V. Schroeder, An Introduction to Thermal Physics , Schroeder's Physics Software

Course Information

In-Class Slides

Aug. 21: annotated course information
Aug. 28: Specific Heat, Xu et al., JCP 130, j054505 (2009),
Aug. 30:
- Summary for Test 1, and Fall 2018 Exam 1 empty (incl. provided formulae), with solution,
- Viscosity: Angell-Plot, Heussinger PRE 2013
Sept.6: Worksheet for Interacting Einstein Solids
Sept. 15: Summary for Test 2, and Fall 2018 Exam 1 empty (incl. provided formulae), with solution,
Sept. 20: Sep. 20 (Schroeder Prob. 3.1),
Sept. 25: Negative Temp. Experiment (PRE 81, 279 (1951),
Oct. 2: Summary for Test 3, and Fall 2018 Exam 2 empty (incl. provided formulae), with solution,
Oct. 16: Oct.16 (Phase Transitions incl. Prob.5.30), Nobel Prize in Physics 2010: Graphene, water phase diagram, J.M. H. (Anneke) Levelt Sengers, Images for Diblock Copolymer Phase Diagram, Nobel Prize in Physics 2016, Giorgio Parisi (Nobel Prize in Physics 2021)
Oct. 20: Summary for Test 4, and Fall 2018 Exam 2 empty (incl. provided formulae), with solution
Oct.20: problem 5.59
Nov. 1: Velocity Distribution: Fiege et al., PRE 88, 022138 (2013)
Nov. 6: Summary for Test 5, and Fall 2018 Exam 3 empty (incl. provided formulae), with solution
Nov. 15: Satyendra Nath Bose, Enrico Fermi
Nov. 27: Summary for Test 6, and Fall 2018 Exam 3 empty (incl. provided formulae), with solution
Dec. 1: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, solution to optional white dwarf problem HW 34 (incl. 7.23)
Dec. 4: Summaries for Tests 1-6 and after Test 6, and Fall 2018 Final empty (incl. provided formulae), with solution

Dec. 4: Bose-Einstein condensation (wikipedia)

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Assignments

Due	Topic	Read	Homework	Sol.
Aug. 23	Ideal Gas & Equip. Thm	§ 1.1-1.3	1.1, 1.11, 1.16 Hint: Air N₂	HW 1
Aug. 25	Heat and Work	§ 1.4-1.5	1.21, 1.23, 1.25	HW 2
Aug. 28	Heat Capacities	§ 1.6	1.27, 1.34, 1.36	HW 3
Aug. 30	Rates	§ 1.7	1.41, 1.46a-d, 1.50	HW 4
Sept. 1	Test 1	none	none	Test 1
Sept. 4	Multiplicity	§ 2.1 & 2.2	1.60, 1.67, 1.70	HW 5
Sept. 6	Interacting Systems	§ 2.3	2.3a-f, 2.4, 2.5b,c,f,g, 2.7	HW 6
Sept. 8	Large Systems I	§ 2.4	2.10 (7pt) & 2.11 (8pt)	HW 7
Sept. 11	Large Systems II	§ 2.4	2.17, 2.18, 2.19	HW 8
Sept. 13	Ideal Gas	§ 2.5	2.24 (10P)	HW 9
Sept. 15	Entropy	§ 2.6	2.26, 2.27	HW 10
Sept. 18	Test 2	none	none	Test 2
Sept. 20	Temperature	§ 3.1	2.31, 2.34, 2.37	HW 11
Sept. 22	Entropy & Heat	§ 3.2	3.1, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7	HW 12
Sept. 25	Paramagnet	§ 3.3	3.8, 3.10, 3.14	HW 13
Sept. 27	Mech. Equilibrium	§ 3.4	3.23,3.25a-c,3.25d,e (due Sept.29)	HW 14
Sept. 29	Equilibrium & μ	§ 3.5 & 3.6	3.31,3.34a-d,3.34e-g (due Oct.2)	HW 15
Oct. 2	Heat Engine and Refridgerator	§ 4.1 & 4.2	3.35, 3.36	HW 16
Sept. 18	Test 3	none	none	Test 3
Oct. 6	Free Energy	§ 5.1 up to page 155	4.1, 4.5, 4.18	HW 17
Oct. 11	Thermodynamic Identities	finish § 5.1	5.5, 5.6 (due 5pm)	HW 18
Oct. 13	Equilibrium and G	§ 5.2	3.33, 5.12, 5.14a-c, 5.14d-g	HW 19
Oct. 16	Phase Transitions	§ 5.3 up to page 175	5.22, 5.23ab, 5.23cd	HW 20
Oct. 18	van der Waals	finish § 5.3	5.31, 5.32ab, 5.47a	HW 21
Oct. 20	Mixtures	§ 5.4 up to page 195	5.48, 5.51	HW 22
Oct. 23	Test 4	none	none	Test 4
Oct. 25	Boltzmann Factor	§ 6.1	5.60, 5.65	HW 23
Oct. 27	Average Values	§ 6.2	6.5 , 6.9a,b & 6.9c	HW 24
Oct. 30	Equipartition Theorem	§ 6.3	6.16, 6.17,problem A	HW 25
Nov. 1	Maxwell Distribution	§ 6.4	6.26, 6.31, 6.32a,b	HW 26
Nov. 3	F and Composite Systems	§ 6.5 & 6.6	6.35, 6.37, 6.41	HW 27
Nov. 6	Ideal Gas	§ 6.7	6.42, 6.43, 6.44	HW 28
Nov. 8	Test 5	none	none	Test 5
Nov. 10	Ising Model	§ 8.2 up to page 348	6.45, 6.50, 6.52	HW 29
Nov. 13	Gibbs Factor	§ 7.1	HW30: 8.18	HW 30
			HW31: 8.22 (due 11/15)	HW 31
Nov. 15	Bosons & Fermions	§ 7.2	7.2, 7.6 (due 11/17)	HW 32
Nov. 17	Degenerate Fermi Gas	§ 7.3 through page 278	7.8, 7.16, 7.18 (due 11/27)	HW 33
Nov. 27	Degenerate Fermi Gas	§ 7.3 through page 278	7.8, 7.16, 7.18 (due 5pm)	HW 33
Nov. 29	Test 6	none	none	Test 6
Dec. 1	Black Body Radiat.	§ 7.4 through p. 296	7.20, 7.22 (option 7.23)	HW 34
Dec. 4	Bose-Einstein Condens.	§ 7.6	7.39, 7.44	HW 35
Dec. 7, 8am	Final	none	none	Final

Syllabus

Dates	Topics	Reading
Aug 21 - 30	Intro & Energy	Ch 1
Fr, Sept 1	Test 1
Sept 4 - 15	Entropy	Ch 2
Mo, Sept 18	Test 2
Sept 20 - 29	Temperature/Interactions	Ch 3
Oct 2	Engines & Refridgerator	§ 4.1 & 4.2
Wed, Oct 4	Test 3
Oct 6 - 13	Free Energy	§ 5.1, 5.2
Oct 16 - 20	Phase Transitions	§ 5.3 , 5.4
Mo, Oct 23	Test 4
Oct 25 - Nov 6	Boltzmann Statistics	Ch 6
Wed, Nov 8	Test 5
Nov 10	Ising Model	§ 8.2
Nov 13 - 17	Quantum Statistics: Bosons & Fermions	§ 7.1 - 7.3
Nov 27	Black Body Radiation	§ 7.4
Wed, Nov 29	Test 6
Dec 1 & 4	BE Condens.	§ 7.6
Dec 7, 8am	Final Exam