Location
- CCIS L1-047
Time
- TR 930-1050 (Fall Term)
Teaching delivery methods
- Lectures will be given in person.
Grade break-down
- Assignments 25%, Midterm Exam 25%, Final Exam 50%
Assignments
- There will be 5 assignments, each worth 5% of the final grade.
(total of assignments worth 25% final grade).
Assignments should be submitted into the box marked PHYS310
opposite CCIS L2-041.
Late assignments are not accepted. They must be handed in
before the time and date indicated on the assignment
(typically Thursdays at 4pm).
Assignment questions and their solutions will appear below as
the course progresses.
Midterm
- In class 9:30-10:50am on Tuesday, October 24 in CCIS L1-047
(worth 25% final grade)
(Note the date above was changed from the originally scheduled date
by agreement of the class.)
- Topics to be covered by midterm
- The midterm will cover material between Chapters 1 and 5
of the lecture notes as
well as the definition and calculation of entropy
in Chapter 6, pages 38-40 and Chapter 7, page 44.
- You do NOT need to know the Helmholtz or Gibbs free energy,
the Maxwell relations or the reciprocal and cyclical relations.
- In essence, Assignments 1 - 3, have asked questions on the
material to be covered in the midterm.
- Aids you can bring to the midterm
- Calculators will NOT be needed for the midterm.
- You may bring one 8 1/2 X 11 ``cheat sheet''.
On this you may write any
definitions, formulae or constants you like on
both sides of the page.
- NOTE: the back page of the midterm will have this
formula sheet.
Also, the second last page of the midterm will be blank,
and can be used for rough work or overflow of solutions.
- Midterm preparation
- Midterm solutions
- You can now see the
solutions
to the midterm question.
Exam
- 9am - noon, Thursday, December 14.
NRE 1-003 (Natural Resources Engineering Facility)
(worth 50% final grade)
Deferred exam 9am-noon, Saturday, January 27, 2024 in CCIS L1-047
- The exam will have six questions based on the material covered
in the entire course, except chapters 9 and 12 of lecture notes.
(I.e. you do not need to know about chemical potentials or
Boltzmann statistics.)
- Provided tools
- Attached to the back of the exam will be two pages listing
handy constants and formulae that
you can look at right now
- Aids you can bring to the exam
- Calculator
- Two 8 1/2 X 11 ``cheat sheets''.
For example, you may
reuse the cheat sheet you used on the midterm and bring in
a second sheet with formulae from the second half of the
course. In general, you may write any
definitions, formulae or constants you like on
both sides of each page.
(Note: The back two pages of the exam will have formulae that
you can look at right now.)
- The third last page will be blank for rough or overflow calculations.
- Final exam preparation
Syllabus
- Much of the information here is summarized in the
syllabus, which also
points to additional university learning, support and ethics
resources/guidelines.
Extra Help
- Office hours will be set by appointment.
To make an appointment, send an email request to
bruce.sutherland-AT-ualberta.ca (replace -AT- with @ in address)
with suggested meeting times during the next working day.
Alternately, I will be available to answer questions during breaks
in class or immediately after lectures.
Course Outline
-
Temperature: heat, work, and the first law of thermodynamics;
entropy and the second law, enthalpy, Helmholtz and Gibbs free energy;
thermodynamic equilibrium criteria; Maxwell's relations, phase transitions;
elementary kinetic theory of gases
Textbook
- There is no required textbook for the course.
- The course will be taught from the lecture notes.
These will be posted below as the term progresses.
Additional Resources
-
You may wish to refer to the following textbooks for additional aid:
- Thermodynamics, Statistical Thermodynamics, and Kinetics,
T. Engel and P. Reid, Pearson
- An Introduction to Thermal Physics,
Daniel V Schroeder, Addison-Wesley Longman
Lecture Notes
- The course will be taught from the lecture notes below:
Supplemental
-
Prerequisites and co-requisites
- Prerequisites: one of PHYS 124,144 or EnPh 131;
and one of PHYS 126, 146 or 130.
- Pre- or Co-requisite: MATH 209 or MATH 215 or MATH 317 or equivalent.