Thermodynamics
0351.2202
Undergraduate course, Semester A, 2008/2009
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)
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Lecturer: Haim Diamant
(Ornstein 404A, 6967, hdiamant@tau.ac.il)
Teaching Assistants:
Ms. Claudia Vartash-Sztrum
(Ornstein 206, 7229, sztrumcl@tau.ac.il)
Ms. Orly Kletenik-Edelman (Ornstein 206, 7229, kletenik@tau.ac.il)
Mailing
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Course fact sheet including a detailed syllabus
(pdf
doc)
Bibliography
Program
- Lecture 1 (2/11/08)
- 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
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Solution #1
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- Lecture 2 (6/11/08)
- Thermodynamic variables, intensive vs. extensive quantities,
environment (reservoir)
- Systems in contact: isolated system, thermal contact, pressure contact,
diffusive contact
- Thermodynamic equilibrium
Class Exercise #2
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Home Exercise #2
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Solution #2
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- Lecture 3 (9/11/08)
- Thermodynamic processes: isothermal process, isobaric process,
isochoric process, adiabatic process, reversible process
- Ideal and real gases, virial expansion, van der Waals equation
of state
- Lecture 4 (13/11/08)
- Zeroth law of thermodynamics
- First law of thermodynamics
- Work, heat
- Heat capacity, enthalpy
Class Exercise #3
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Home Exercise #3
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Solution #3
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- Lecture 5 (16/11/08)
- Legendre transform
- Processes in an ideal gas: isothermal expansion, isobaric expansion,
adiabatic expansion
- Lecture 6 (20/11/08)
- Processes in an ideal gas (cont.): adiabatic expansion, isochoric heating,
irreversible free expansion
- Thermochemistry
Class Exercise #4
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Home Exercise #4
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Solution #4
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- Lecture 7 (23/11/08)
- Thermochemistry (cont.)
- Second law of thermodynamics
- Lecture 8 (27/11/08)
- Second law of thermodynamics (cont.)
Class Exercise #5
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Home Exercise #5
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Solution #5
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- Lecture 9 (30/11/08)
- Spontaneous processes
- The statistical interpretation of entropy
- Entropy change in reversible processes
- Entropy change in irreversible processes
- Lecture 10 (4/12/08)
- Entropy of mixing
- Heat engine
Class Exercise #6
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Home Exercise #6
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Solution #6
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- Lecture 11 (7/12/08)
- Heat pump
- The third law of thermodynamics
- Thermodynamic potentials and natural variables:
internal energy, enthalpy
- Lecture 12 (11/12/08)
- Thermodynamic potentials and natural variables (cont.):
Helmholtz free energy, Gibbs free energy
Class Exercise #7
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Home Exercise #7
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Solution #7
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- Lecture 13 (14/12/08)
- Thermodynamic potentials and natural variables (cont.):
Gibbs free energy, grand-canonical potential
- Lecture 14 (18/12/08)
- Maxwell relations
- Fugacity
Class Exercise #8
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Home Exercise #8
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Solution #8
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- Lecture 15 (21/12/08)
- Activity
- Chemical equilibrium
- Lecture 16 (25/12/08)
- Chemical equilibrium (cont.)
- Gas-liquid phase transition
- Lecture 17 (1/1/09)
- Gas-liquid phase transition (cont.)
- Law of corresponding states
- Coexistence
- Metastable phases
- Phase diagrams
Class Exercise #9
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Class Solution #9
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Home Exercise #9
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Solution #9
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- Lecture 18 (4/1/09)
- Phase diagrams (cont.)
- Gibbs phase rule
- Lecture 19 (8/1/09)
- Gibbs phase rule with reactions
- Chemical potential and entropy in first-order phase transitions
- Latent heat
- Clapeyron and Clausius-Clapeyron equations
Class Exercise #10
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Home Exercise #10
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Solution #10
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- Lecture 20 (11/1/09)
- Ideal mixtures
- Raoult's law
- Bubble line; dew line
- Phase diagram of binary mixtures
- Lecture 21 (15/1/09)
- Phase diagram of binary mixtures (cont.)
- Non-ideal mixtures
- Henry's law
- Activity coefficients
Class Exercise #11
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Class Solution #11
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Home Exercise #11
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Solution #11
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- Lecture 22 (18/1/09)
- Activity coefficients (cont.)
- Freezing point of a binary solution
- Osmotic pressure
- Lecture 23 (22/1/09)
- Activity of electrolytes
- Debye-Huckel theory
Class Exercise #12
(pdf doc)
Home Exercise #12
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Solution #12
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- Lecture 24 (25/1/09)
- Debye-Huckel theory (cont.)
- Electrochemical equilibrium
- Electrochemical cells
- Lecture 25 (29/1/09)
- Electrochemical cells (cont.)
- Thermodynamic measurements using electrochemical cells
Past exams
2008/2009 A
(pdf doc)