Thermodynamics
0351.2202
Semester A, 2009/2010
Sunday, 12:00-14:00, Holcblat 7 (lecture)
Thursday, 12:00-14:00, Holcblat 7 (lecture)
Sunday, 14:00-16:00, Ornstein 110 (tutoring)
Tuesday, 15:00-17:00, Ornstein 110 (tutoring)
Announcements:
Lecturer: Haim Diamant
(Ornstein 404A, 6967, hdiamant@tau.ac.il)
Teaching Assistants:
Ms. Orly Kletenik-Edelman
(Ornstein 206, 7229, kletenik@tau.ac.il)
Mr. Inon Sharony (Ornstein 411A, 7634, inonshar@tau.ac.il)
Ms. Naomi Oppenheimer (Ornstein 405, 8902, naomiopp@tau.ac.il)
Mailing
list
Course fact sheet including a detailed syllabus
Bibliography
Program
- Lecture 1 (18/10/09)
- The context of thermodynamics: why study large systems separately?
- Mathematical reminder: derivative, partial derivative, differential,
exact differential
- State function, thermodynamic path, thermodynamic cycle
Simulation of irreversibility in a gas of hard disks
Home Exercise #1
Solution #1
- Lecture 2 (22/10/09)
- Thermodynamic variables, intensive vs. extensive quantities,
environment (reservoir)
- Systems in contact: isolated system, thermal contact, pressure contact,
diffusive contact
- Thermodynamic equilibrium
- Thermodynamic processes: isothermal process, isobaric process,
isochoric process, adiabatic process, reversible process
- Ideal and real gases, virial expansion, van der Waals equation
of state
Class Exercise #2
- Lecture 3 (25/10/09)
- Virial expansion and van der Waals equation (cont.)
- Zeroth law of thermodynamics
- First law of thermodynamics
- Work, heat
- Heat capacity
Home Exercise #2
Solution #2
- Lecture 4 (29/10/09)
- Enthalpy
- Heat capacities at constant volume and constant pressure
- Lecture 5 (1/11/09)
- Legendre transform
- Processes in an ideal gas: isothermal expansion, isobaric expansion,
isochoric heating
Class Exercise #3
Home Exercise #3
Solution #3
- Lecture 6 (5/11/09)
- Processes in an ideal gas (cont.): adiabatic expansion, irreversible free expansion
- Thermochemistry
- Lecture 7 (8/11/09)
- Thermochemistry (cont.): Hess law
- Second law of thermodynamics: Carnot principle, Kelvin-Planck formulation, entropy
Class Exercise #4
Home Exercise #4
Solution #4
- Lecture 8 (12/11/09)
- Second law of thermodynamics (cont.): irreversible processes, Clausius' formulation
- Lecture 9 (15/11/09)
- Spontaneous processes
- The statistical interpretation of entropy
- Entropy change in reversible processes
Class Exercise #5
Home Exercise #5
Solution #5
- Lecture 10 (19/11/09)
- Entropy change in irreversible processes
- Entropy of mixing
- Lecture 11 (22/11/09)
Class Exercise #6
Home Exercise #6
Solution #6
- Lecture 12 (26/11/09)
- The third law of thermodynamics
- Thermodynamic potentials and natural variables:
internal energy, Helmholtz free energy
- Lecture 13 (29/11/09)
- Thermodynamic potentials and natural variables (cont.):
Gibbs free energy, grand-canonical potential
Class Exercise #7
Home Exercise #7
Solution #7
- Lecture 14 (3/12/09)
- Thermodynamic potentials and natural variables (cont.):
grand-canonical potential, enthalpy
- Maxwell relations
- Lecture 15 (6/12/09)
- Fugacity
- Activity
- Chemical equilibrium
Class Exercise #8
Home Exercise #8
Solution #8
- Lecture 16 (10/12/09)
- Chemical equilibrium (cont.)
- Lecture 17 (20/12/09)
- Gas-liquid phase transition
- Critical point; law of corresponding states
Class Exercise #9
Home Exercise #9
Solution #9
- Lecture 18 (24/12/09)
- Coexistence: equal-area construction, lever rule
- Metastable phases: super-heating, super-cooling
- Lecture 19 (27/12/09)
- Phase diagrams
- Chemical potential and entropy in first-order phase transitions
- Latent heat
- Clapeyron and Clausius-Clapeyron equations
Class Exercise #10
Home Exercise #10
Solution #10
- Lecture 20 (31/12/09)
- Gibbs phase rule
- Ideal mixtures
- Bubble line; dew line
- Lecture 21 (3/1/10)
- Raoult's law
- Phase diagram of binary mixtures
Class Exercise #11
Solution of Q3 in Exercise #11
- Lecture 22 (7/1/10)
- Phase diagram of binary mixtures (cont.)
- Distillation
- Non-ideal mixtures
- Henry's law
- Activity coefficients
- Lecture 23 (10/1/10)
- Effect of solute on boiling point
- Effect of solute on freezing point
- Osmotic pressure
Class Exercise #12
Home Exercise #11
Solution #11
- Lecture 24 (14/1/10)
- Osmotic pressure (cont.)
- Activity of electrolytes
- Lecture 25 (17/1/10)
- Debye-Huckel theory
- Electrochemical equilibrium
Class Exercise #13
Solution of Q4-Q6 in Exercise #13
Home Exercise #12
Solution #12
- Lecture 26 (21/1/10)
- Electrochemical cells
- Thermodynamic measurements using electrochemical cells
Past exams
2008/2009 A
2008/2009 B
2009/2010 A