PH 207

Heat and Thermodynamics

3-0-0-6

 

Syllabus:

Kinetic theory and Transport phenomena: Equation of state of a perfect gas, Maxwell velocity distribution, real gases and Vander Wall's equation, collisions, mean free path, viscosity and thermal conductivity, diffusion, Brownian motion.

Laws of thermodynamics and applications: Review of thermodynamic systems, state variables, intensive and extensive parameters, thermodynamic processes, Zeroth and first law of thermodynamics, State functions, internal energy and enthalpy, Joule Thomson effect, Carnot process and entropy, second law of thermodynamics, refrigerators and thermodynamic engines, Otto and diesel engines, TdS equations, Third law of thermodynamics

Thermodynamic potentials: Entropy and internal energy as thermodynamic potentials, Legendre transformation, Helmholtz and Gibbs potentials, enthalpy, grand potential, transformation of variables Maxwell relations.

Phase equilibria: Joule-Thomson expansion, Gibb's phase rule, Clausius-Clapeyron equation, phase equilibrium and Maxwell construction, first order phase transitions, critical point.

Texts:

1.     W. Pauli, Thermodynamics and kinetic theory of gases, Dover Publications, 2010

2.     M. W. Zeemansky and R. H. Dittman, Heat and thermodynamics, McGraw Hill, 1997

References:

1.     F. W. Sears and G. L. Salinger, Thermodynamics, Kinetic Theory and Statistical Thermodynamics, Narosa, New Delhi, 1975.

2.     C. Kittel and H. Kroemer, Thermal Physics, W. H. Freeman & Co., 1980.

3.     F. Mandl, Statistical Physics, John Wiley, 1978.

4.     W. Greiner, L. Neise and H. Stocker, Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, Springer, 1995.