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
8. Basis concepts of Thermochemistry
9. Third Law of Thermodynamics
10. Thermodynamics in static electric and magnetic fields
11. Kinetic Theory
12. Appendix
12.1 Exact Differentials and the Theory of Differential Euqation
12.2 Statistical Interpretation of Entropy
12.3 Hurricanes and the Carnot cycle
12.4 Relationships between partial derivatives using Jacobian