Homework Assignments PH 327 Spring 2011
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 10, 2011
- 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 p. 5
- 1.8, p. 6
- 1.11, 1.12 p. 8
- 1.15. Take the balloon diameter to be 80 ft. Find the air temp
inside the balloon when the outside air is 40 F (dawn), and also at 55
F (late morning)
Set 2. Due Tuesday March 15, 2011
- 1.16 p. 8
- 1.17 a) and b) p. 9
- 1.18, 1.20 p. 13
- Problem 1.22 a), b) c) and d) p. 14
Set 3. Due Monday March 21, 2011
- Problem 1.17 c) and d) p. 9
- Problem 1.23 p. 17
- Problem 1.30 p. 20
- Problem 1.33 p. 23
- 1.37, p. 26
- How many mols of propane must be burned to raise the air
temperature in the balloon (set 1, prob 1.15, 80 ft diameter) by 10 K?
Set 4. Due Monday March 28, 2011
- 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 1.63, p. 44
- Problem 2.1, p. 51
- Problem 2.3, p. 52
- Problem 2.8 p. 59. Do it for each solid having 15 oscillators,
and they share a total of 30 units of energy.
Set 5. Due Friday April 1, 2011
- Problem 3.5, p. 91 (You can start where I started 3.25, but you
must make the approximation q << N right away.)
- Problem 3.24, p. 107
- a) Estimate the temperature when the vibrational mode of I2
(iodine) becomes active, knowing its vibrational interval is 0.0298 eV.
b) Estimate Cp, the heat capacity of I2 at room temperature.
- Problem 3.28, p. 113
Exam
1April 5, 2011
Set 6. Due Monday April 11, 2011
- Problem 3.36, p. 119
- Find the chemical potential of Argon at 300 K and 150 kPa
- Problem 4.2 a), p. 124
- Problem 4.18 p. 133
- Problem 4.33, p. 143
Set 7. Due Tuesday April 26
- Problem 4.22
- Problem 4.30 (H3 = H4, don't try to equate S3 and S4)
- Problem 5.1
- Problem 5.5 p. 155
Set 8. Due Tuesday May 3, 2011
- Problem 5.20, p. 163
- Problem 5.28, p. 171
- Problem 5.37, p. 176
- Problem 5.77, p. 205
- Problem 6.5, p. 225
- Problem 6.11, p. 228
Set 9. Due Thursday May 12, 2011<>
- Problem 6.13, p. 228, Neutrons and protons in the early universe
- Problem 6.23, p. 236. Keep adding j values till Z changes by less
than 0.1 %
- Problem 6.39, p. 246. Use Digits = 300 in Maple. You
must get x_min like Schroeder does on p. 246
- Problem 7.9, p. 265 Quantum volume and quantum statistics
- Problem 7.43, p. 295 Emag energy in the Sun
- Problem 7.52, p. 304 Blackbody radiation from your body
Exam
2 Tuesday May 17, 2011