輔仁大學物理系三年級 光電組
Fall 2007
Thermodynamics
3 credit hours
Instructor
Dr. KengChing Kathy Lin
Office
PH225B
E-mail
phys2017@mail.fju.edu.tw
Lab
PH 304 (your TAs’ desks 2905-3767)
Office hour
Mon. Tue.14:40-15:20 PM and by appointments
Lectures
Tue. (13:40 -14:30 pm) and Thur. (8:10-10:00 pm)
Phone 2905-3129
Textbook:
An Introduction to Thermal Physics, D.V. Schroeder,
Addison-Wesley-Longman, 2000, ISBN 0-321-27779-1
How to grade your performance for this course?
1. Assigned homework problem set every week (10%) and Quizzes (20%)
2. Mid-term exam (30%)
3. Final Exam (40%)
Topics to be covered
1. The First Law of Thermodynamics (Ch1)
Temperature, Ideal Gas, Heat and Work, Heat Capacity, Enthalpy
2. The Second Law; Entropy (Ch2,3)
Two-State Systems, the Einstein Model of a Solid, Interacting Systems
3. Toward Absolute Zero (Ch4)
Heat Engines, Real Refrigerators, Para-magnetism
4. The Thermodynamic Potential (Ch5)
Free energy, Equilibrium between Phases, Phase Transformations in Binary
Mixtures, The van der Waals Gas, Dilute Solutions
5. Boltzmann Statistics (Ch6)
Boltzmann Factor, Maxwell Speed Distribution, Partition Function, Canonical
Ensembles
6. Quantum Statistics (Ch7)
Gibb’s Factor, Bosons and Fermions, Degenerate Fermi Gas, Black Body
Radiation, Debye Theory of Solids, Bose-Einstein Condensation