• Course Schedule (2006)

• Tutorial 1 Solutions
• Tutorial 2 Solutions
• Tutorial 3 Solutions
• Tutorial 4 Solutions
• Tutorial 5
• Thermodynamic cycle practice problems here are a set of thermodynamic cycles where you can practice deriving equations for efficiency, heat and work.

Formula Sheet

• Formula Sheet 2009 (provided on all 2009 PHYS2060 exam papers)

Past Exam papers

• Final Exam 2002 (formula sheet 2002)
• Final Exam 2004
• Final Exam 2005
• Final Exam 2006
• Final Exam 2007
• Final Exam 2008

Past Midsession Exam papers

Please read the guide for information relevant to the 2009 mid session test.

• 2009 - Guide to past MS papers
• Midsession Exam 2002
• Midsession Exam 2006
• Midsession Exam 2006 solutions
• Midsession Exam 2007
• Midsession Exam 2007 solutions
• Midsession Exam 2008
• Midsession Exam 2008 solutions
• Thermodynamic cycle practice problems here are a set of thermodynamic cycles where you can practice deriving equations for efficiency, heat and work.

Readings

• A Fresh Look at Entropy
• Astumian Molecular Motors Article
• Black-hole thermodynamics
• Boiling and Leidenfrost effect
• Boltzmanns entropy and times arrow
• Brooks_New Scientist
• Brownian motors
• Cartwright_The Tia Demo
• Deep Trouble
• Does hot water freeze first?
• Heckenberg_Crooke's radiometer
• Hero's fountain
• Humphrey's PRL
• Hurricanes - Tempests in a greenhouse
• Ice cold in Paris
• Irreversibility and heat generation in the computing process
• Linke02_ApplPhysA
• Making molecules into motors
• Rahmstorf_EQS_2006
• The physics of popcorn
• The Van der Waals model -DVS
• The Van der Waals model -SS
• The virtual cook
• Towards the absolute zero
• Turbulent heat flow
• Van Ness -Reversibility
• Van Ness -The First Law
• Van Ness -The Second Law
• Why is ice slippery
• Crooke's Radiometer and Otheoscope

Useful websites

• Statistical and Thermal Physics (STP) Curriculum Development Project (which has notes, simulations, learning tools for thermal physics).

Previous years lecture notes

2008 Lecture notes (Adam Micolich)

• Introduction
• Pressure
• Temperature
• Gas laws
• Equipartition
• Maxwell Distribution and Brownian Motion
• Work and Heat
• First Law and Reversibility
• Engines
• Second law
• Carnot cycle
• Entropy I
• Entropy II
• Entropy III
• Maths I
• Maths II
• Clausius-Clap
• Third law

2001 Lecture notes (Oleg Sushkov)

• Lecture 1
• Lecture 2
• Lecture 3
• Lecture 4
• Lecture 5
• Lecture 6
• Lecture 7
• Lecture 8
• Lecture 9
• Lecture 10
• Lecture 11
• Lecture 12
  
  

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