Week plan

• Mon: Weekly exercise and last weeks exercise solution published
• Tue 10:15, Store Fysiske Auditorium: Lecture
• Wed 12:15, Store Fysiske Lesesal: Seminar
• Wed 14:15, ?397: Problem solving with teaching assistants
• Thu 12:15, ?397: Group session
• Thu 08:15 & : Group session

W34 Basics of thermal physics and the arrow of time

• Book and compendium chapters
  • Sch: 1.1-1.7
  • Comp: 1, 2
• Basic concepts: Energy, heat, work, heat -capacity, -radiation, -conduction, diffusion, temperature, entropy, irreversibility, arrow of time
• Lectures
  • Lecture 1, Tue 22 Aug, Dag:
    • phase equilibrium & phase transitions
    • heat of melting & condensation
    • Thermal concepts inventory
    • Veritasium: What do we get from the sun?
  • Lecture 2, Wed 23 Aug, Dag:
    • arrow of time
    • demo experiment: heat conduction
    • simulations (algorithmic & MD): heat conduction
    • phenomenological theory of heat conduction & diffusion
    • Comments on anwers to Thermal concepts inventory

W35 Multiplicity, probability & statistics

• Book and compendium chapters
  • Sch: 2.1, 2.2
  • Comp: 2.2, 2.3, 4
• Basic concepts:
  • Probability, expected value, variance, probability distributions, central limit theorem
  • Microstates & macrostates, multiplicity
• Models: Two-state, random walk, Einstein crystal
• Lectures
  • Lecture 3 , Tue 29 Aug, Luiza: Probability and statistics
  • Lecture 4, Wed 30 Aug, Dag:
    • Micro & macro
    • Algorithmic simulations
• Mon: Oblig 1 out

W36 Molecular dynamics simulations

• Book and compendium chapters
  • Comp: 3
• Basic concepts: Many-body systems, pair potentials, equipartition of energy, temperature, pressure
• Models: Lennard-Jones
• Lectures
• Lecture 5, Tue, Dag:
  • Intro to MD
  • Installation of Lammps on student computers
• Lecture 6, Wed, Dag:
  • Hands on with Lammps
• Mon 23:59: Oblig 1 in

W37 Interacting systems and entropy

• Book and compendium chapters
  • Sch: 2.3, 2.4, 2.6, 3.4, 3.5
  • Comp: 6.1-6.3, 6.5-6.7, 6.9, 6.10
• Basic concepts: Equilibrium, entropy, temperature, pressure, chemical potential, entropy of mixing,
• Models: Einstein crystal, two-state
• Lectures
  • Lecture 7, Tue, Dag: Deriving conditions of thermal, mechanical and diffusive equilibrium, entropy, definitions of \( T,P,\mu \)
  • Lecture 8, Wed: Entropy of mixing, expansion of gases
• Mon: Oblig 2 out

W38 Boltzmann & Gibbs statistics and the ideal gas

• Book and compendium chapters
  • Sch: 2.5, 6.1-6.4, 7.1
  • Comp: 5, 6.4, 7.1-7.2, 7.7, 10.1
• Basic concepts: Boltzmann factor, partition function, equipartition, MB-distribution, Gibbs factor, Gibbs sum
• Models: Ideal gas
• Lectures
  • Lecture 9, Tue, Dag
  • Lecture 10, Wed, Dag
• Wed 23:59: Oblig 2 in

W39 Thermodynamics: free energy & heat engines

• Book and compendium chapters
  • Sch: 4, 5.1, 5.2
  • Comp: 8
• Basic concepts: State variables, extensive & intensive, thermodynamic identities, path dependence, adiabatic, isothermal, isochoric, quasi-static and reversible processes, equation of state, enthalpy, Helmholtz & Gibbs free energies, heat engine, refrigerator, efficiency
• Models: Carnot cycle
• Lectures
  • Lecture 11, Tue, Pavlo
  • Lecture 12, Wed, Dag
• Lab 1A Gas thermodynamics
• Sun 23:59: Hand in Lab 1

W40 Phase equilibria and phase transitions

• Book and compendium chapters
  • Sch: 5.3, 5.4
  • Comp: 9.2-9.5
• Basic concepts: Gibbs free energy, phase diagrams, principle of corresponding states, latent heat, Clausius-Clapeyron relation
• Models: van der Waals
• Lectures
  • Lecture 13, Tue, Dag
  • Lecture 14,Wed, Pavlo
• Mon: Oblig 3 out

W41 Midterm

• Wed 14:15: Problem solving with teaching assistants
• Wed 23:59 Oblig 3 in

W42 Chemical potential

• Book and compendium chapters
  • Sch: 2.6, 3.5, 5.5, 5.6
  • Comp: 9.1, 9.6
• Basic concepts: Mixtures, solutions, vapor pressure, osmotic pressure
• Models: ideal solution
• Lectures
  • Lecture 15, Tue, Dag
  • Lecture 16, Wed, Dag
    • lecture video part1
    • lecture video part2
• Lab 2A Phase transitions
• Sun 23:59: Hand in Lab 2

W43 Thermodynamics and the canonical ensemble

• Book and compendium chapters
  • Sch: 6.5-6.7
  • Comp: 7.3-7.6
• Basic concepts: Partition function, Helmholtz free energy, Legendre transform
• Models: Paramagnet, Einstein crystal, ideal chain, Pauling's hemoglobin
• Lectures
  • Lecture 17, Tue, Luiza: Canonical ensemble and thermodynamic potentials
  • Lecture 18, Wed, Dag: Modelling polymers and oxygen transport in our body (Sick on the day. Lecture will be given in week 46.)

W44 Fermi gas

• Book and compendium chapters
  • Sch: 7.2, 7.3
  • Comp: 10.2, 10.3
• Basic concepts: Fermi energy, density of states
• Models: Free electron gas
• Lectures
  • Lecture 19, Tue, Pavlo: Fermi-Dirac distribution
  • Lecture 20 Wed, Luiza: Gibbs statistics and QM gases
• Mon: Oblig 4 out

W45 Photons and phonons

• Book and compendium chapters
  • Sch: 7.4, 7.5
  • Comp: 10.4, 10.5
• Basic concepts: Ultraviolet catastrophe, Planck distribution, thermal vibrations
• Models: Black body, Debye solid
• Lectures
  • Lecture 21, Tue, Pavlo: Bose-Einstein distribution & black-body radiation
  • Lecture 22, Wed, Pavlo: Heat capacity
• Wed 23:59: Oblig 4 in

W46 Repetition & exercises

• Lectures
  • Tue,
    • 10:15-11, Dag: Modelling polymers
    • 11:15-12, Vidar Skogvoll: Thermophysics of supeheroes
  • Wed, Dag, Lecture 18, Oxygen transport in our body
• Problem solving, Wed: Exercises week 46
• Group sessions, Thu: Exam 2017
• Oblig 4 returned

W47 Repetition & exercises

• Problem solving, Wed: Help with exam problems
• Group sessions, Thu: Exam problems

W49 Exam