Professor: Ken Intriligator
5234 Mayer Hall
keni@ucsd.edu
Office Hours: after lecture, 3:30 - 4:30 Tues, or by appointment. 		 TA: Laura Tucker
Office: Mayer Hall 2101
singingscientist@gmail.com
Office Hours: Tues. 2-3,
or by appointment. (Also,
Tues 3-5 pm in tutor center)

Final exam mean = 57.2%, std dev = 19%.

Here is a copy of the final. Here are the solutions.

Text: Classical and Statistical Thermodynamics by Ashley Carter. This class will cover the topics of the following sections of the book: 1.8, 1.8, 2.2, 2.5, 2.6, chapter 3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.6, 5.3, chapter 6, chapter 7 (except 7.5), 8.1, 8.3, 8.7, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1 to 11.6, chapter 12, chapter chapter 13, chapter 14, 15.2, 16.1-16.3. The topics of the other sections in the book will be covered in 140b.

Course Times: Lecture: TTh 11:00-12:20, CSB 002. Discussion: Weds 11:00-11:50, PETER 103.

Homework: Around 7 problem sets, with about a week to do each. Due in class, at 11:00am (or dropped off earlier). Late HW sets will not be accepted.

Midterm: Will be Oct. 31, during the lecture time. The midterm will cover the topics up to and including that in 9.2, i.e. the topics in thermodynamics. Midterm mean: 29.6 points (out of 60 possible), standard deviation = 11.7 points.

Final: Tues Dec. 5, 11:30-2:30. No late or early finals, check your schedule now!

Grading: Homework=20%, Midterm=30%, Final=50%.

Lectures closely follow those of Raj Pathria's 140a class in previous years. You should take his 140b class next quarter - he is a master of this subject!

date Topics (and link to lecture notes) Homework
9/21 Introduction and the zero'th law of thermodynamics.            
9/26 Equations of state. Ideal gas. SI temperature definition. First law  HW 1 (due 9/28)           HW 1 solns
9/28 Heat capacity etc.   HW 2 (due 10/5)           HW 2 solns
10/3 Heat and engines             
10/5 Engines and efficiency   HW 3 (due 10/12)        HW 3 solns
10/10 More on efficiency, temperature, and Kelvin's statement (the 2nd law)   3asolns and 3bsolns (with numbers)
10/12 Entropy and the 2nd law   HW 4 (due 10/19)         HW 4 solns
10/17 Entropy change - lots of examples. Applications of the second law  4 soln (with numbers)
10/19 S and disorder, energy degradation, H and F and G, max mech work   HW 5 (due 10/26)         HW 5 solns
10/24 F, H, G minimization. Phase boundaries.   5 solns (with numbers)
10/26 Chemical potential. Gibbs function and equation  
10/31 Midterm          Midterm solutions
11/2 Kinetic theory of gases  HW 6 (due 11/9)
11/7 Velocity and gaussian distribution.  
11/9 Effusion. Binomial distribution.   HW 7 (due 11/16)         solns
11/14 Statistics, and S.  
11/16 Counting microstates, MB, FD, BE   more HW 7 soln's (with numbers)
11/21 M.B. statistics, and Z   HW 8 (due Nov. 30)          solns
11/28 BE and FD statistics. Harmonic oscillators  
11/30 Heat capacity of non-metallic solids   more HW8 soln's (with numbers)