Lecture Notes for PHYS2060 Thermal Physics

Proposed Lecture Schedule 2012 (updated 18/07/2012)

Lecture notes 2012 (sourced from the actual lecture by Paul Curmi)

• Lecture 6
• Lecture 7
• Lecture 8
• Lecture 9
• Lecture 10
• Lecture 11
• Lecture 12
• Lecture 13
• Lecture 14
• Lecture 15
• Lecture 17
• Lecture 18
• Lecture 19
• Lecture 20
• Lecture 21
• Lecture 22
• Lecture 23
• Lecture 24

Assignments 2012

• Assignment 1: Due Wednesday 19th September 2012 before 4pm
  Assignment 2: Due Friday 12th October before 4pm
• Why do we have winter heating?

Additional notes 2012

• Plotting the Carnot cycle properly for ideal gases
• Unscrambling the Clausius Inequality

Lecture notes 2009 (Paul Curmi)

• Lecture 1 - Introduction
• Lecture 2 - Concepts and definitions
• Lecture 3 - Processes
• Lecture 4 - Kinetic theory of Gases
• Lecture 5 - Ideal gas, temperature, thermal equation
• Lecture 6 - Thermodynamics proper, temperature, recap on processis for Ideal Gas
• Lecture 7 - Work and Heat: The first law of thermodynamics
• Lecture 8 - The first law: Heat
• Lecture 9 - Heat and applications of the first law
• Lecture 10 - Heat Engines, Efficiency and the Carnot Cycle
• Lecture 11 - Tutorial
• Lecture 12 - Cycles and Carnot's Theorem
• Lecture 13 - Midsession test
• Lecture 14 - The Second Law of Thermodynamics and Introduction to Entropy
• Lecture 15 - Entropy
• Lecture 16 - Entropy II
• Lecture 17 - Consequences of the Fundamental equation U(S,V,N) being 1° homogeneous
• Lecture 18 - Thermodynamic Potentials
• Lecture 19 - Thermodynamic Potentials II + Maxwell's Relations
• Lecture 20 - van der Waals gas, phase transitions and stability criteria
• Lecture 21 - Phase Transitions, Clausius-Clapeyron Eqn & Gibbs Phase Rule
• Lecture 22 - Third Law of Thermodynamics & Boltzmann Entropy
• Lecture 23 - Entropy, Information and fluctuations
• Lecture 24 - Final topics
  
  

Assignments 2009

• Assignment 1
• Assignment 2
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Course Schedule

Tutorials and Solutions

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Further Information

Contact:

• Paul Curmi : p.curmi@unsw.edu.au