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Time: MWF 11
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Place: Hebb 13
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Instructor: Birger Bergersen
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Office: Hennings 328
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Phone: 822-2754
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E-mail: birger@physics.ubc.ca
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Office hours: ½ hr before each lecture, or you may take your chances,
and drop by my office to see if I‘m in.
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Text: “An introduction to thermal physics” by Daniel
Schroeder (Addison Wesley 2000)
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There will be a 6 regular problem sets. The problems will
be posted on the course website, as will be suggested solutions (after the
problems are due). The problems will be due on approximately 9 days after they
are assigned. They are very much part of the course. There is no formal
tutorial but the first part of the lecture on the lecture before the problems
are due will be set aside for discussion of the problems. The assignment will be marked with a numerical grade to help you
recognize your mistakes, but the assignment mark towards your final grade will
not be based on a simple addition of the individual marks. Instead I will look for an honest attempt to
solve the problems. Your grade will not penalize you for making a few mistakes
on the assignments. You are encouraged to seek help from me, or collaborate
with each other, in solving in these problems, although we will not accept
assignments that are just copies of each other.
· There will be 2 midterms and a final exam. The first midterm will is scheduled for wednesday
October 1. The second is scheduled for Wednesday November 5.
· A review problem set (which doesn’t need to be handed in) will be posted a week or so before the midterms and final. If you hand in solutions to these before solutions are posted you can use them to make up for missing assignments. If you do better on final than on the midterms the final will be given increased weight.
MARking scheme:
Assignments: 20%
Midterms: 10%+20%
Final: 50%
If you wish to reduce the weight of the final you may hand in an optional term paper. If you miss assignments you can hand in solutions to review problem sets before they are discussed in class.
OVERVIEW:
The main topics of the course are:
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Energy in thermal physics
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Second law of thermodynamics
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Thermodynamic concepts
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Engines and refrigerators
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Free energies and chemical thermodynamics
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Elementary statistical mechanics
PROBLEMS FALL 2003
2nd
Midterm review problem set 2003
End of term review
problems 2003.
PROBLEMS FALL 2002
End of term
review problem set 2002.
PROBLEMS FALL 2001
PROBLEMS FALL 2000 (with
solutions):
Problem set 1 2000: 1.8 and 1.17 of text.
Problem set 2 2000: 1.28, 1.42 and 1.54 of text.
Problem set 3 2000: 2.2, 2.4 and 2.8 of text.
Problem set 4 2000: 2.28, 2.33 and 2.36 of text.
Midterm review problems 2000: 3.10, 3.11, 3.13 and 3.14 of text.
Problem set 5 2000: 4.1, 4.13 and 4.18 of text.
Problem set 6 2000: 5.5, 5.10 and 5.11 of text.
Problem set 7 2000: 5.32, 5.33 and 5.42 of text.
REFERENCESS:
Links to thermodynamics related web sites.