Thermal Physics

(Syllabus)

  1. Introductory remarks and basic concepts
  2. First Law of Thermodynamics
  3. Mathematical Background and Applications

    3.1 Partial Derivatives

    3.2 Application of the Thermodynamic Notation

    3.3 The Simple Solid

    3.4 Thermal Expansion and Bulk Modulus

    3.5 Relationships between Partial Derivatives

  4. Equilibrium Processes in Gases

    4.1 Processes in Ideal Gases

    4.2 Change in Temperature with Elevation

    4.3 Cyclic Processes

  5. Reversible and irreversible Processes
  6. Second Law of Thermodynamics

    6.1 Kelvin and Clausius Statements

    6.2 Carnot´s Theorem

    6.3 Absolute Temperature

    6.4 Differentials

    6.5 Entropy

    6.6 Thermodynamic Potentials

  7. Phase Transitions
  8. Basis concepts of Thermochemistry
  9. Third Law of Thermodynamics
  10. Thermodynamics in static electric and magnetic fields
  11. Kinetic Theory
  12. Appendix
  13. 11.1 Exact Differentials and the Theory of Differential Euqations

    11.2 Statistical Interpretation of Entropy

    11.3Hurricanes and the Carnot cycle

    11.4 Relationships between partial derivatives using Jacobian