Week 1 : Kinetic theory of gasses: Maxwell-Boltzmann speed distribution law, average speed, RMS speed, most probable speed, pressure expression from kinetic theory
Week 2 : Mean free path, collision probability, Fundamentals of transport phenomena
Week 3 : Viscosity, diffusion, effusion, thermal conductivity in gasses.
Week 4 : Brownian motion and its significance, Einstein’s theory of molecular diffusion, Perrin’s experiment, random walk (concept only)
Week 5 : Principle of equipartition of energy, degrees of freedom, Specific heat of monoatomic, diatomic and polyatomic gasses, Specific heat of solids, Dulong-petit law, Einstein and Debye theory of specific heat of solids
Week 6 : Real gasses, deviation from ideal gas equation, The Van-der Walls equation of state, the virial coefficients, other equation of state (elementary discussion)
Week 7 : Zeroth and 1 st law of thermodynamics, quasi static processes, work and internal energy, isothermal and adiabatic processes, elastic coefficients of matter
Week 8 : Cyclic process, heat engines and refrigerators, Carnot’s theorem and Carnot’s cycle, 2 nd law of thermodynamics, Clausius’ theorem, Entropy.
Week 9 : The entropy principle, The T-S diagram, Otto and diesel cycles, entropy and unavailable energy, physical interpretation of entropy.
Week 10 : Maxwell’s thermodynamics relations, the TdS, Gibbs- Helmholtz and energy equations, Enthalpy, Helmholtz and Gibbs free energies, general condition for thermodynamic equilibrium, thermodynamics of chemical reactions
Week 11 : Equilibrium between phases, 1 st order phase transitions, 1 st and 2nd latent heat equations, Phase diagram and Triple point, 2
nd order phase transition and Ehrenfest equations, Gibbs phase rule and simple applications.
Week 12 : Radiation: Energy density and pressure of radiation, Blackbody radiation and Kirchhoff’s law, Blackbody (Cavity) radiation as a thermodynamic system, 3 rd law of thermodynamics, entropy at absolute zero temperature
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