MBARARA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

FACULTY OF SCIENCE
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
PHY1105:HEAT AND THERMODYNAMICS
COURSE DURATION: 30 CH
CREDIT UNITS: 2 CU

Brief course description

This course covers the Science of energy conversion involving heat and other forms of
energy and it inter-relates the macroscopic variables such as temperature, volume and
thermodynamic systems. It covers basic thermodynamic concepts.

Reading Books
ˆ Equilibrium Thermodynamics - 6th Edition by Kenneth Walk, Jr and Donald E
Richards (1999), McGraw-Hill Inc,Singapore.

ˆ Heat and Thermodynamics ;7th Edition by Mark W Zemansky and Richard H

Dittman (1997), Mc Graw-Hill, Book Company, Singapore

ˆ Thermodynamics, Kinetic Theory, and Statistical Thermodynamics, 3rd Edition

byvFrancis W Sears and Gerhard L Salinger (1986), Addison-Wesley Publishing
Company

Course Outline
ˆ Basic Thermodynamic Concepts

– Temperature, Temperature scales, absolute zero of temperature

– Systems and their surroundings
– Equation of state
– Intensive and extensive variables
– Black body radiation
– Enthalpy
– Energy, Work, P-V diagrams

ˆ Laws of Thermodynamics

– Zeroth law of thermodynamics

– The first law of thermodynamics and its applications
– The second law of thermodynamics
– The 3rd and 4th laws of thermodynamics
– Entropy of an ideal gas
– Clausius and Kelvin statements

ˆ Thermodynamic Changes

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 – Reversible and irreversible changes
– Heat engines and heat pumps
– The Carnot cycle for an ideal gas
– Clausius equation and entropy
– The Otto cycle

ˆ Thermodynamic Relations

– Specific heats and equation of state

– Maxwell’s relations and their applications

ˆ Introduction to Statistical Thermodynamics

– Ensembles(Types of ensembles treated briefly (Canonical, Micro canonical and

Grand Canonical))
– Microstates
– Brief treatment of Mean speed and mean square speed, kinetic energy, equipar-
tition of energy theorem