Course

PHYS-105: Advanced physics II (thermodynamics)

Lectures in this course (106)

Introduces fundamental concepts of thermodynamics, emphasizing problem-solving skills and practical applications.

Covers phase transitions, stability, phase diagrams, and phase coexistence, emphasizing experimental observations and the Clausius-Clapeyron equation.

Chemical Reactions: Affinity and Osmosis

Explores chemical potential, affinity, and osmosis in chemical reactions, emphasizing reaction progress over time.

Thermodynamic Functions and Calorimetric Coefficients

Discusses thermodynamic functions, calorimetric coefficients, and their relationships in physical systems.

Osmotic Pressure: Electrochemical Potential

Explores osmotic pressure and electrochemical potential, highlighting their calculation and significance in electrolyte behavior.

Kinetic Theory of Gases: Ideal and Van der Waals Models

Explains the kinetic theory of gases, focusing on ideal gas behavior and the van der Waals model.

Analysis of Simple Systems

Covers the analysis of simple systems, including characterization, experiments, and exercises to find properties.

Maxwell's Gas Theory: Formation Temperature of Earth

Covers Maxwell's gas theory, focusing on ideal gas behavior and Earth's formation temperature analysis.

Temperature: Definition and Measurement

Covers the definition and measurement of temperature, including the Kelvin scale and the relationship between Celsius and Kelvin scales.

Temperature, Pressure, Chemical Potential

Explores temperature, pressure, and chemical potential in simple systems, along with reversible processes and powers.

Thermodynamics: Heat Capacity of Ideal and Van der Waals Gases

Discusses the heat capacity of ideal gases and solids, and the Van der Waals equation's implications for real gases.

Second Principle: Entropy

Explores the second principle of thermodynamics, emphasizing entropy's role in system evolution and equilibrium.

Entropy: Heat and Processes

Explores entropy, heat transfer, friction, and mechanical power conversion in various systems.

Introduction to Second Principle

Discusses the challenges of teaching entropy in thermodynamics and its application in simple systems.

Irreversible Processes, Dissipation

Explores irreversible processes, dissipation, heat generation, subsystem behavior, and state variables.

Irreversible Processes, Transport

Explores irreversible processes and transport phenomena related to heat, pressure, and chemical potential differences in isolated systems.

Thermal Equilibriums

Explains thermal, mechanical, and chemical equilibriums in thermodynamics.

Irreversibility: Introduction

Introduces Chapter 3 on irreversibility, focusing on analyzing equilibriums and transport laws in specific thermodynamic systems.

Transformations de Legendre

Covers Legendre transformations, internal energy, building functions, and energy libre de Gibbs.

Physical Sens of Potentials

Explores the physical sense of potentials, equilibrium between subsystems, and work and free energy in systems.