PHY4513/PHY5515 Thermal and Statistical Physics, Spring 2007

E-mail: rikvold@scs.fsu.edu

COURSE GRADES

• Syllabus
  
  
• Java applets from the Clark University Statistical and Thermal Physics Project
  
  
• Other Java applets for two-dimensional ideal gas
  
  
• Free download of Java
  
  
• Animation of the gasoline-engine Otto cycle
  
  
• Just some fun: LEGO compressed-air engines
  
  
• The Diamond structure of Carbon
  
  
• The Graphite structure of Carbon
  
  
• Mathematica notebook for the van der Waals model of phase transitions
  
  
• Mathematica is installed on the PCs in the undergraduate lounge. If you just want to read the notebook, you can download this free Mathematica reader
  
  
• Movies of simulated phase separation in a fluid cooled below the critical temperature. (Note that there is no gravity in these simulations, so the liquid does not collect at the bottom of the box. This is how it would look on the Space Station.)
  
  
• A real cool movie of phase separation at a black smoker, shot from a remotely operated deep submersible.
  
  
• A brief, axiomatic overview of classical thermodynamics
  
  
• Probability and Information Theory
  
  
• Problems and solutions
  
  

LATE HOMEWORK POLICY:

Unless you have made previous arrangements or have a reason I will accept (such as sickness, accident, death in family, ...), the grade for any homework turned in after I have posted the solutions on the web will count toward your final grade with 2/3 its normal weight (i.e., 100 will be recorded as 67, etc.).