週次 |
日期 |
單元主題 |
第1週 |
09/15 |
Introduction to advanced thermodynamics |
第2週 |
09/22 |
First law of thermodynamics |
第3週 |
09/29 |
Second law of thermodynamics |
第4週 |
10/06 |
No class on 10/06 for personal leave. Make-up classes on 10/20, 10/27, and 11/03 from 12:20pm - 13:10pm. |
第5週 |
10/13 |
Combined 1st and 2nd laws;
3rd law of thermodynamics;
Calculus of thermodynamics: four postulates |
第6週 |
10/20 |
Make-up class today from 12:20pm - 13:10pm.
Introduction to thermodynamics potentials;
Legendre transform;
Physical interpretation of thermodynamic potentials |
第7週 |
10/27 |
Make-up class today from 12:20pm - 13:10pm.
Response functions and Maxwell relations;
Manipulating derivatives;
Joule-Thomson effect;
Gibbs-Helmholtz equations |
第8週 |
11/03 |
Make-up class today from 12:20pm - 13:10pm.
Equilibrium conditions and stability criteria;
Entropy maximum principle and thermodynamic potential minimum principle |
第9週 |
11/10 |
First-order phase transition |
第10週 |
11/17 |
Midterm exam from 09:10am to 12:10pm
Closed book but open your own hand-written note
Range: everything up to first-order phase transition
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第11週 |
11/24 |
Chemical equilibrium;Gibbs phase rule;Second-order phase transition; Ideal gas mixture |
第12週 |
12/01 |
non-ideal gas mixture; dilute solutions |
第13週 |
12/08 |
Applications of mixtures:
Chemical reaction of ideal mixtures;
Osmotic pressure;
Non-ideal mixtures;
Binary mixtures |
第14週 |
12/15 |
Introduction to Statistical mechanics;
Micro-canonical ensemble;
Boltzmann's entropy formula |
第15週 |
12/22 |
Canonical ensemble;
Gibbs entropy formula;
and Grand canonical ensemble |
第16週 |
12/29 |
Simple derivation of ensemble distributions;
Fluctuations in energy and particle number;
Thermodynamic equivalence between ensembles |
第17週 |
01/05 |
Statistical mechanics of non-interacting gases;
Some basic quantum mechanics;
Statistical mechanics of ideal gases |
第18週 |
01/12 |
Final exam from 09:10am to 12:10pm
Closed book but open your own hand-written note
Range: focus on mixtures and statistical mechanics |