Thermodynamics
0351.2202
Semester A, 2012/2013
Sunday, 12:00-14:00, Dan David 001 (lecture)
Thursday, 12:00-14:00, Ornstein 103 (lecture)
Sunday, 14:00-16:00, Ornstein 103 (tutoring)
Tuesday, 15:00-17:00, Melamed/Holcblat 007 (tutoring)
Announcements:
Lecturer: Haim Diamant
(Ornstein 404A, 6967, hdiamant@tau.ac.il)
Teaching Assistants:
Tamar Zelovich (Ornstein 405, 8902, tamizilo@gmail.com)
Itai Leven (Ornstein 405, 8902, itaileve@post.tau.ac.il)
Nirit Nachman (Ornstein 222B, 5115, niritnac@post.tau.ac.il)
Alexey Fomin (Interdisciplinary 201, 9597, alexeyfo@post.tau.ac.il)
Mailing
list
Course fact sheet including a detailed syllabus
Bibliography
Addional material from MIT's OpenCourseWare
Program
- Lecture 1 (21/10/12)
- 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 (requires Java)
Class Exercise #1
Home Exercise #1
Solution #1
- Lecture 2 (25/10/12)
- State function, thermodynamic path, thermodynamic cycle (cont.)
- Thermodynamic variables, intensive vs. extensive quantities,
environment (reservoir)
- Systems in contact: isolated system, thermal contact, pressure contact,
diffusive contact
- Thermodynamic equilibrium
- Lecture 3 (28/10/12, 13:00-14:00)
- Thermodynamic processes: isothermal process, isobaric process,
isochoric process, adiabatic process, reversible process
- Ideal and real gases, virial expansion
Class Exercise #2
Solution to Class Exercise #2
Home Exercise #2
Solution #2
- Lecture 4 (1/11/12)
- Real gases: van der Waals equation of state
- Zeroth law of thermodynamics
- First law of thermodynamics
- Work, heat
- Lecture 5 (4/11/12)
- Heat capacity
- Enthalpy
- Heat capacities at constant volume and constant pressure
Proof of the entropy being a state function
Class Exercise #3
Solution to Class Exercise #3
Home Exercise #3
Solution #3
- Lecture 6 (8/11/12)
- Processes in an ideal gas:
isothermal expansion,
isobaric heating,
isochoric heating
- Lecture 7 (11/11/12)
- Processes in an ideal gas (cont.): adiabatic expansion,
irreversible free expansion
- Thermochemistry
Class Exercise #4
Solution to Class Exercise #4
Home Exercise #4
Solution #4
- Lecture 8 (15/11/12)
- Thermochemistry (cont.): Hess law
- Second law of thermodynamics: Carnot principle,
Kelvin-Planck law, entropy, irreversible processes
- Lecture 9 (18/11/12)
- Second law of thermodynamics (cont.): irreversible processes,
Clausius' formulation,
spontaneous processes,
systems at equilibrium
Class Exercise #5
Solution to Class Exercise #5
Home Exercise #5
Solution #5
- Lecture 10 (22/11/12)
- Entropy change in an ideal gas
- Entropy change in reversible and irreversible processes
- The statistical interpretation of entropy
- Lecture 11 (25/11/12)
Class canceled
Class Exercise #6
Solution to Class Exercise #6
- Lecture 12 (29/11/12)
- Entropy of mixing
- Heat engine
- Lecture 13 (2/12/12)
- Heat pump
- Legendre transform
- Thermodynamic potentials and natural variables:
internal energy
Class Exercise #7
Solution to Class Exercise #7
Home Exercise #7
Solution #7
- Lecture 14 (6/12/12)
- Helmholtz free energy
- Gibbs free energy
Class Exercise #8
Solution to Class Exercise #8
Home Exercise #8
Solution #8
- Lecture 15 (13/12/12)
- Homogeneous functions, Gibbs-Duhem equation
- Gibbs-Helmholtz equation
- Grand-canonical potential
- Lecture 16 (16/12/12)
- Maxwell relations
- The third law of thermodynamics
Class Exercise #9
Solution to Class Exercise #9
Home Exercise #9
Solution #9
- Lecture 17 (20/12/12)
- Activity
- Fugacity
- Chemical equilibrium
- Lecture 18 (23/12/12)
- Chemical equilibrium (cont.)
Class Exercise #10
Solution to Class Exercise #10
Home Exercise #10
Solution #10
Summary of formulas for chemical equilibrium
- Lecture 19 (27/12/12)
- Chemical equilibrium (cont.)
- Gas-liquid phase transition
- Lecture 20 (30/12/12)
- Critical point
- Law of corresponding states
Class Exercise #11
Solution of Class Exercise #11
- Lecture 21 (3/1/13)
- Coexistence: equal-area construction, lever rule
- Metastable phases: super-heating, super-cooling
- Lecture 22 (6/1/13)
- Phase diagrams
- Gibbs phase rule
- Chemical potential and entropy in first-order phase transitions
- Latent heat
- Lecture 23 (10/1/13)
- Lecture 24 (13/1/13)
- Phase diagram of binary mixtures
- Distillation
- Non-ideal mixtures: Henry's law
Class Exercise #12
Solution of Class Exercise #12
Home Exercise #11
Solution #11
- Lecture 25 (17/1/13)
- Non-ideal mixtures: Activity coefficients
- Effect of solute on boiling point
- Effect of solute on freezing point
- Osmotic pressure
- Lecture 26 (20/1/13)
- Osmotic pressure (cont.)
- Activity of electrolytes
- Debye-Huckel theory
Class Exercise #13
Solution of Class Exercise #13
Home Exercise #12
Solution #12
- Lecture 27 (24/1/13)
- Debye-Huckel theory (cont.)
- Electrochemical equilibrium
Past exams
2008/2009 A
2008/2009 B
2009/2010 A
2009/2010 B
2010/2011 A
2010/2011 B
2011/2012 A
2011/2012 B