Thermodynamics

Home

Course notes

1) [|Energy, work, and temperature] 2) [|Energy, power, and albedo] 3) [|Heat capacity] 4) [|Thermal conductivity] 5) [|Entropy, disorder, and equilibrium]

Labs

1) [|Newton's law of cooling] 2) [|Albedo] 3) [|Heat capacity] 4) [|Thermal conductivity] 5) [|Entropy]

Benchmark Project

1) [|The electricless refrigerator]

Calendar

Thursday/Friday 2/3 September 2010 1. Show video on recharging batteries with batteries: [] Introduce the idea of energy and energy conservation. 2. Show video on the bowling ball pendulum: [] 3. MIT demonstration on kinematic energy conservation: [] 4. In class work on [|Energy1] 5. Refer to the potential energy shirt: [] 6. Leidenfrost effect: [] 7. Superfluid helium: [] 8. Superconducting magnets: [] 9. Homework: finish [|Energy 1]

Tuesday/Wednesday 7/8 September 2010 1. [|Newton's Law of Cooling Lab] 2. Lab report due within one week

Thursday/Friday 9/10 September 2010 1. [|Introduction to albedo] 2. Albedo in the arctic: [] 3. Albedo in the arctic: [] 4. Geoengineering and artificial global cooling: []

Monday 13 September 2010 1. [|Albedo Lab] 2. Homework: finish Albedo lab analysis. Analysis due the following Monday.

Tuesday/Wednesday 14/15 September 2010 1. Continue with [|Albedo Lab] 2. Discuss lab analysis questions

Thursday/Friday 16/17 September 2010 1. Introduction to [|heat capacity]

Tuesday/Wednesday 21/22 September 2010 1. Review [|heat capacity] 2. Start [|heat capacity lab]. 3. Lab report due within one week.

Thursday/Friday 23/24 September 2010 1. Continue with [|heat capacity lab]. 2. Discuss analysis questions.

Monday 27 September 2010 1. Lecture notes on [|thermal conductivity]

Tuesday/Wednesday 28/29 September 2010 1. Finish lecture notes on [|thermal conductivity] 2. Start thermal [|conductivity lab]

Thursday/Friday 30 September / 1 October 2010 1. Finish thermal [|conductivity lab] Report due Monday 4 October.

Monday 4 October 2010 1. Review conductivity lab 2. Preview [|Zeer Pot benchmark]