PHY351/CHM341, Fall  '06 
Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics/Physical Chemistry II

Time: T R 9:30 -10:45 PM 	Instructor: J. C. Macosko
Office Hours: M W F 1:00-2:00pm and by appointment. 	Office: Olin 215

Web Sites:     http://www.wfu.edu/~macoskjc/Courses/ThermoFall06.htm  At this web site you can find answers to exercises and full solutions to HW (after the HW has been submitted). 

Text: Modern Thermodynamics by Kondepudi and Prigogine (1998, John Wiley, New York) 

Syllabus: 	Chapters 1 - 9 and parts of chapter 10 Basic kinetics theory and additional topics in statistical mechanics.
Grade based on:			        Points 
Test #1	15 
Test #2	15 
Test #3	20* 
Final (Comprehensive) 		35 
Homework	15 
*5 points will be based on proposal for final projects.  Grades on these projects will replace one test score.  Reading quizzes will replace up to 10 points on the Final.

Tentative schedule for tests and final: 
Test 1: 19 Sept. (Tues.) Chapters 1 – 3 and kinetic theory.
Test 2: 17 Oct. (Tues.) Chapters 4 – 6.
Test 3: 9 Nov. (Thurs.) Chapters 7 – 9 topics in kinetics.
Final: 9:00 am, Dec 4 (Mon.) Comprehensive Exam. 
Remarks on tests: 
• Any changes in test scores should be done within a week after the graded tests are returned. 
.	• All final answers in the tests must be in a box, unless the answer is descriptive. 

In the event that the university closes due to pandemic or other disaster,  please study the text and work the attached list of homework problems on the schedule 
described. Please send the solutions to: 
 
  Jed Macosko (Thermo Homework)
  Dept. of Physics, P.O. Box 7507
  Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109

You will be mailed or e-mailed a mid-term test and a final exam that should be taken closed book, without access to resources other than a calculator.  Return the exam by Jan. 1, 2007.
Week by week schedule
Date	Lecture notes	Homework Assigned 	HW due	Reading Assigned (quiz in next lecture) 	
Th 8-24	Lecture 1	Chapter 1: 1,2,3	Tu 9-5 	Chapter 1.1-4	
Tu 8-29	Lecture 2	Chapter 1: 5,7,8	Th 9-7	Kinetic Theory of Gases 	
Th 8-31	Lecture 3	Chapter 2: 2,5,7	Tu 9-12	Chapter 2.1-3	
Tu 9-5 	Lecture 4	Chapter 2: 10,11,14	Th 9-14	Chapter 2.4-5 	
Th 9-7	Lecture 5  	Chapter 3: 1,2,5	Th 9-21 	Chapter 3.1-2 	
Tu 9-12	Lecture 6 	Chapter 3: 6,8,9	Tu 9-26	Chapter 3.3-8	
Th 9-14	Lecture 7	Review Chapters 1-3 	get ready for Midterm 1	Study for Midterm 1 	
Tu 9-19	Exam 1	Chapter 4: 1,2,3,4,5	Th 9-28	Chapter 4.1-4 	
Th 9-21 	Lecture 8 	Chapter 5: 4,5,7 	Tu 10-3	Chapter 5.1-3 	
Tu 9-26	Lecture 9	Chapter 5: 11,12,13	Th 10-5	Chapter 5.4-6 	
Th 9-28	Lecture 10 	Chapter 6: 2,3,6	Tu 10-10	Chapter 6.1-2a 	
Tu 10-3	Lecture 11	Chapter 6: 7,8,10	Th 10-12	Chapter 6.2b-3 	
Th 10-5	Lecture 12	Chapter 7: 1,3,5	Tu 10-24	Chapter 7.1-3 	
Tu 10-10	Lecture 13	Chapter 7: 6,10,11	Th 10-26	Chapter 7.4-5 	
Th 10-12	Lecture 14	Review Chapters 4-6 	get ready for Midterm 2 	Study for Midterm 2 	
Tu 10-17	Exam 2 	Presentation Abstracts 	Th 10-26	Handout	
Th 10-19	Guest Lecture 	Chapter 8: 1,4,8	Tu 10-31 	Chapter 8.1-3 	
Tu 10-24	Lecture 15	Chapter 8: 9,15,17	Th 11-2	Chapter 8.3-5 	
Th 10-26	Lecture 16 	Chapter 9: 1,2,3,6,7,9	Tu 11-7	Chapter 9.1-5 	
Tu 10-31 	Lecture 17 	Chapter 10: 1,3,4	Tu 11-14	Chapter 10.1-2 	
Th 11-2	Lecture 18 	Chapter 10: 5,6,8	Th 11-16	Chapter 10.3-4	
Tu 11-7	Lecture 19	Review Chapters 7-9 	get ready for Midterm 3 	Study for Midterm 3 	
Th 11-9	Exam 3  	Stat. Mech. HW (TBA) 	Th 11-30	Handout (Stat. Mech.) 	
Tu 11-14	Lecture 20 	Stat. Mech. HW (TBA) 	Th 11-30	Handout (Stat. Mech.)	
Th 11-16	Lecture 21 	Finalize Presentations 1 	Tu 11-21	Handout (Thermo Applications)	
Tu 11-21	Presentations 1  	Finalize Presentations 2 	Tu 11-28	Chapters 1-6	
Tu 11-28	Presentations 2 	Presentation Write-up 	Mo 12-4	Chapters 7-10	
Th 11-30	Review	Review Chapters 1-10 	get ready for Final	Chapters 1-10	
Mo 12-4 	Final Exam 9AM 	 	 	 	

Possible presentation topics:

1.    Perpetual motion machines: outright fraud or inspired invention? 
2.    Thermodynamics of the speed of sound. 
3.    Bose-Einstein condensation. There have been a number of exciting new experimental results in the last 4 years. See Physics Today or Nature or Physical Review Letters.
4.   Thermodynamics of nano-particles (Nature 384, 621(1997)).
5.   Cooling gases with a “optical molasses”(Stephen Chu, Wm. Phillips, Cohen-Tannoudji, Nobel prize, 1997)
6.   Critical phenomena and critical-point fluctuations
7.   Rubber elasticity and the configurational entropy of polymers; stretching DNA .
8.   Brownian motion
9.   Simulate the MB velocity distribution for an ideal gas. 
10. Fluctuations in the pH of a cell because of its small volume.
11. Thermal fluctuations and the precision of scanning-probe microscopy.
12. Heat pumps
13. Refrigeration based on isentropic cooling
14. Liquifaction of oxygen and of air.
15. Why you need a turbocharger on your next car. 
16. Osmotic pressure and the flow of fluids between capillaries and tissues.