- Previous Offering: Fall 2019
- Timetable:
- Tuesday and Wednesday — 12:30 PM – 02:00 PM — Room: Announced soon
- Office hours will be communicated soon, via email.
- Course Outline: The outline can be downloaded from here.
- Another Note: Solutions of in-class quizzes and homeworks are not made public. If interested, instructors can ask for solutions by sending an email from their institutional email address.
- Lecture 1: Introduction
- Why do we study thermodynamics?
- Atomic Theory of Matter
- What is thermodynamics?
- Need for Statistical Approach
- Microscopic and Macroscopic Systems
- Classical and Statistical Thermodynamics
- Classical and Quantum Approaches
- Lecture 2: First Law of Thermodynamics-I
- Concept of Heat and Heat Capacity
- Concept of Energy
- Functions of State and Exact Differentials
- The First Law of Thermodynamics
- How adding heat can change the internal energy of a gas?
- Heat Capacity of an Ideal Monatomic Gas
- Practice Assignment: All examples and exercise problems of Chapter 11 from Blundell and Blundell
- Handouts
- Lecture 3: First Law of Thermodynamics-II
- Concept of Reversibility
- Quasistatic Phenomena
- Isothermal Expansion of an Ideal Gas
- Adiabatic Expansion of an Ideal Gas
- Practice Assignment: All examples and exercise problems 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 from Chapter 12 of Blundell and Blundell
- Handouts
- Lecture 4: Second Law of Thermodynamics
- Importance of Heat Engines in Thermodynamics
- Clausius Statement of Second Law of Thermodynamics
- Kelvin Statement of Second Law of Thermodynamics
- Carnot Engine
- Carnot’s Theorem
- Equivalence of Clausius’ and Kelvin’s Statements
- Practice Assignment: All examples and exercise problems 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 from Chapter 13 of Blundell and Blundell
- Handouts
- Homework 1 (Due Date: November 16, 2020)
- Lecture 5: Entropy-I
- Clausius’ Theorem (This is included in the handouts of Lecture 4.)
- Introduction to Entropy
- Entropy in terms of a Irreversible Change
- Handouts
- Lecture 6: Entropy-II
- First Law of Thermodynamics and Entropy
- The Joule Expansion
- Change of Entropy in the Gas, Surroundings, and Universe during a Reversible Isothermal Expansion and Compression
- Practice Assignment: All examples and exercise problems 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 from Chapter 14 of Blundell and Blundell
- Handouts
- Lecture 7: Thermodynamic Potentials
- Internal Energy
- Enthalpy
- Helmholtz Free Energy
- Gibbs Free Energy
- Thermodynamic Square
- Handouts
- Lecture 8: Constraints on Thermodynamic Potentials
- Minimization of Availability (A)
- Minimization of Helmholtz Free Energy (F)
- Maximization of Entropy (S)
- Minimization of Gibbs Free Energy (G)
- Maxwell’s Relations
- Handouts
- Homework 2 (Due Date: December 1, 2020)
- Lecture 9: Introduction to Probability
- Idea of Probability
- Discrete and Continuous Probability Distributions
- Variance
- Standard Deviation
- Linear Transformation of Random Variables
- Independent Variables
- Handouts
- Lecture 10: Random Walk Problem
- Random Walk Problem in 1 and 2 Dimensions
- Why random walk problem is important?
- Total Number of Possibilities for N Objects
- Number of Distinct Ways to accommodate N Indistinguishable Objects in M Places (N = M)
- Binomial Distribution
- Bernoulli’s Trial
- Handouts
- Lecture 11: Law of Large Numbers
- Lecture 12: Statistical Interpretation of Temperature
- Lecture 13: Ensembles
- Lecture 14: Boltzmann Distribution of Velocities
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