Physique générale : thermodynamique (classe inversée en anglais)
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- The great forum (Forum)
- Announcements (Forum)
- Advice on undergraduate research (URL)
- Exercise sessions - where and who (File)
- Final exam 2023 (File)
- Final exam 2022 (File)
- Final exam 2021 (File)
- Final exam 2020 (File)
- Final exam 2023 - final answers (File)
- Final exam 2022 - final answers (File)
- Final exam 2021 - final answers (File)
- Final exam 2020 - more complete answers, no guarantees! (File)
- Final exam 2020 - final answers (File)
- Ed Discussion (External tool)
Giancoli 17-1, 17-2, 17-3, 17-4, 17-5
- Form of matter
- Temperature
- 0-th law of thermodynamics
- Thermal expansion and thermal stress
- How exciting is thermodynamics? (Choice)
- Thermal expansion demo (URL)
- Thermal stress (URL)
- Lecture01_cropped.mp4 (Text and media area)
- 2021 02 23 Thermo Class 1 (my notes) (File)
- Lecture notes (official lecture notes) (File)
- Tutorial materials (File)
- Solutions (File)
- Le Yu's presentation (File)
Giancoli 17-6, 17-7, 17-8, 17-9, 17-10, 18-1
- (Ideal) Gas law
- Kinetic theory of gas
- Boyle's Law of Ideal Gases (URL)
- Gay-Lussac's Law of Ideal Gases (URL)
- Combined Gas Law (URL)
- Lecture02_cropped.mp4 (Text and media area)
- 2021 03 04 Thermo Class 2 (my notes) (File)
- Lecture notes (official lecture notes) (File)
- Tutorial materials (File)
- Solutions (File)
- Yao Chen's presentation (File)
Statistical nature of thermodynamics
No relevant chapter in the text book
- Micro and Macrostate
- Boltzmann distribution
- Velocity distribution of molecules
Thursday exercise: Final exam 2020, problem 3
- Maxwell distribution simulation (URL)
- Lecture03_cropped.mp4 (Text and media area)
- 2021 03 10 Thermo Class 3 (my notes) (File)
- Lecture notes (official lecture notes) (File)
- Tutorial materials (File)
- Solutions (File)
- Yujian Diao's presentation (File)
- Probability Distributions 14.03.25 (File)
Giancoli 19-1, 19-2, 19-3, 17-4, 19-5
- Energy, heat and work
- Vapor Pressure of Water (URL)
- Water phase change in a vacuum chamber (URL)
- Making ice with vacuum experiment (life hack) (URL)
- Latent Heat (URL)
- Compressing a gas in a fire piston (URL)
- 2021 03 18 Thermo Class 4 (my notes) (File)
- Lecture04_cropped.mp4 (Text and media area)
- Lecture notes (official lecture notes) (File)
- Tutorial materials (File)
- Solutions (File)
- Why ice skating cannot be explained by pressure-induced melting (URL)
- Experiment 1 (URL)
- Experiment 2 (URL)
Giancoli 19-6, 19-7, 19-8
- First law of thermodynamics
- Thermal Processes
- Molecular specific heat
- Equipartition of Energy
- First Law of Thermodynamics (URL)
- Adiabatic heating (URL)
- Notes Lecture 5 (File)
- Lecture05_cropped_audio_fixed (File)
- Lecture notes (official lecture notes) (File)
- Tutorial materials (File)
- Solutions (File)
Giancoli 19-8, 20-1, 20-3, 20-5, 20-6, 20-7, 20-9
- Reversible and irreversible processes
- Entropy
- Statistical interpretation of Entropy
- Entropy of free expansion a la statistical mechanics
- Entropy and second and third law of thermodynamics
- Entropy and first law of thermodynamics
- Entropy of mixing gas
At this point, should be able to solve:
- Final exam 2020, problem 3
- Final exam 2021, problem 3
- Final exam 2022, problem 3
- Final exam 2023, problem 2
Thursday exercise: Final exam 2023, problem 2
- Did the Big Bang Break the Laws of Thermodynamics? (URL)
- Unmixing a liquid (URL)
- Does This Reaction Break the Second Law of Thermodynamics? (URL)
- Notes Lecture 6 (File)
- lecture6_cropped_audio_fixed.mp4 (Text and media area)
- Lecture notes (official lecture notes) (File)
- Tutorial materials (File)
- Solutions (File)
Giancoli 20-2,20-3, 20-5
- Heat, Work, Entropy and Internal Energy
- Heat engines
- Carnot Cycle and entropy
- Drinking bird (URL)
- Small Stirling engine (URL)
- Interactive explanation of the carnot cycle (URL)
- Notes Lecture 7 (File)
- Lecture 7 (cropped) (File)
- Lecture notes (official lecture notes) (File)
- Tutorial materials (File)
- Solutions (File)
Giancoli 20-2, 20-3, 20-4, 19-10
- Heat Engines
- Refrigerator
- Chemical potential and equilibrium conditions
- Heat Transfer, Conduction, Convection, Radiation
Problem covered by TA on Thursday during exercise session: Final exam 2021, Problem 2
- Bill Nye the Science Guy Demonstrates the Stirling Engine (URL)
- Convection In Water (URL)
- Fast running Stirling engine (URL)
- Thermal Radiation and Leslie's Cube (URL)
- Notes lecture 8 (File)
- Lecture 8 (cropped) (File)
- Lecture notes (official lecture notes) (File)
- Tutorial material (File)
- Solutions (File)
- Supplementary information about the Stirling engine (File)
Mock examination during lecture time
At this point, should be able to solve:
- Final exam 2020, problems 1, 2
- Final exam 2021, problems 1, 2
- Final exam 2022, problems 1, 2
- Final exam 2023, problem 1
- Tutorial materials (File)
- Solutions (File)
- Mock examination 2 (File)
- Mock examination solutions (File)
Break, no lectures
Special relativity 1
Giancoli Fourth Edition: 36-1, -2, -3, -4, -7, -8
- Galilean-Newtonian relativity
- Michelson-Morley Experiment
- Postulation of special relativity
- Simultaneity
- Galilean and Lorentz transformation
- Relativistic velocity addition
Problem covered by TA on Thursday during exercise session: Final exam 2022, Problem 2
- Inertial and non-inertial frames (URL)
- Lorentz transform (URL)
- Notes lecture 9 (File)
- Lecture 9 (cropped) (File)
- Lecture notes (official lecture notes) (File)
- Tutorial materials (File)
- Solutions (File)
- Short summary (File)
- Guided DeepSeek lesson - Relativity 1 (File)
Special relativity 2
Giancoli Fourth Edition: 36-8, -9, -10,
- Length contraction
- Time dilatation
- Relativistic momentum
- Ultimate speed
- Time dilation (URL)
- Length contraction and time dilation (URL)
- Relativistic momentum (URL)
- Relativistic momentum 2 (URL)
- Notes lecture 10 (File)
- Lecture 10 (cropped) (File)
- Lecture notes (official lecture notes) (File)
- Tutorial materials (File)
- Solutions (File)
- Short summary (File)
Special relativity 3
Giancoli 36-10, -11
- Relativistic energy
- Energy-momentum relation
- Unit on energy, momentum and mass
- Centre of momentum and laboratory frames
Problem covered by TA on Thursday during exercise session: Final exam 2021, Problem 1
- Notes lecture 11 (File)
- Lecture 11 (cropped) (File)
- Lecture notes (official lecture notes) (File)
- Tutorial materials (File)
- Solutions (File)
- Short summary (File)
Mock examination during lecture time
- Tutorial materials (File)
- Solutions (File)
- Mock examination - Special relativity (File)
- Mock exam solutions (File)
Special relativity 4
Giancoli 36-12,
- Four dimensional space-time
- Energy-momentum Lorentz four vector
- Doppler effect
- Doppler effect with an ambulence (URL)
- Doppler effect with a motorbike (URL)
- Cool experiment using the Doppler effect and lasers (URL)
- Segment from the Big Bang Theory about the Doppler effect (URL)
- Notes lecture 12 (File)
- Lecture 12 (cropped) (File)
- Lecture notes (official lecture notes) (File)
- Tutorial materials (File)
- Solutions (File)
- Short summary (File)
"Ascension".