Homework Assignments PH 327 Spring 2010
       
           
           
For first day of class:Read parts
of Chapter 1 enough to bring to class Schroeder's definitions of a) temperature,
   b) heat, and c)  work. 
           
      Set 1. Due Thursday March 11, 2010
       
        - 1.1, 1.2, 1.3    p. 5
         
        - 1.7a) bulb OD 5.0 mm, bulb length 16 mm, column diameter 2/15 
mm,   dL/dT = 0.070 m/30K
         
        - 1.12   p. 8
 
        - 1.15. Measure basket diameter and balloon diameter with transparent 
  ruler. Take basket to be 2.0 m across, assume spherical balloon
 
           
      Set 2. Due Tuesday March 16, 2010
            
        - 1.16    p. 8
 
       - 1.17 a) and b)    p. 9
        
        - 1.18, 1.20    p. 13
 
           - 1.37, p. 26
 
           
      Set 3. Due Monday March 22, 2010
      
           - Problem 1.17 c) and d)    p. 9
 
        - Problem 1.22 a), b),  c) and d)   p. 14
 
       - Problem 1.24    p. 17
 
       - Problem 1.30    p. 20
 
       - Problem 1.31    p. 22
        
           
           
      Set 4. Due Monday March 29, 2010
 
           
        - Problem 1.61, p. 40
 
     - Problem 1.62, p. 40. You want net heat flow into an element of length 
 dx, in from the left, out at the right. This will cause a temperature change 
 within the length element
 
     - Problem 1.64, p. 44
 
     - Problem 2.2, p. 51
      
     - Problem 2.8 p. 59. Do it for each solid having 12 oscillators, and 
 they share a total of 30 units of energy.
 
           
           
      Exam 1  
April   1, 2010 
      
  Set 5. Due Friday April 16, 2010 
           
    - Problem 3.24, p. 107
 
    - Problem 3.32, p. 114
 
    - Problem 3.36, p. 119
 
    - Find the chemical potential of  neon at 300 K and 150 kPa
 
   
  Set 6. Due Monday April 26, 2010 
           
    - Prob. 4.3,  p. 124
 
    - Prob  4.5,  p. 126
     
    - Prob 4.10, p. 129
 
    - Prob 4.11, p. 129
 
    - Prob 4.20, p. 133
 
    - Prob 4.22, p. 137
 
   
 
Set 7. Due Monday May 3, 2010 
           
  - Prob. 4.33,  p. 143
 
  - Prob  5.2,  p. 152
     
  - Prob 5.4,   p. 155
 
  - Prob 5.28, p. 171
 
  - Prob 5.42, p. 177
    
Set 8. Due Monday May 10, 2010 
           
  - Prob. 6.3,  p. 225
 
  - Prob  6.6,  p. 227
 
  - Prob 6.11, p. 228
   
  - Prob 6.12, p. 228
 
  - Prob 6.15, p. 231
 
Set 9. Due Friday May 14, 2010 
            
  - Prob 6.23 p. 236 Rotational partition function of CO. 
 
  - Estimate the CO bond length from Appendix A Eq. A.21, and the given
energy constant 
 
  - Prob 6.39, p. 246.  For part a) use Argon.  Try Digits = 300 in Maple.
   
  - Prob 6.47, p. 255    Freeze-out of tranlational degrees of freedom
 
  - Calculate Cp for Br2, given its vibration at 370.48 cm^-1, and compare
to 36.02 J/K [Assume fully developed rotation and translation degrees of
freedom]
 
Exam 2  Tuesday
May 18, 2010 
 
    (Set 10. Due Friday May 17, 2010
- if time permits) 
             
  - Prob 7.19, p. 276 Degeneracy pressure in copper